Andy Warhol

SUBJECT MATTER
The subject matter of the work itself I think is just
showing different techniques used in one piece of work and making them look
simple but at the same time professional and interesting. Andy Warhol has its
own style. The colours are flat and dull is kind of boring so the mood that the
work creates isn’t excitement or happiness, it is very simple or too simple
that’s why the mood isn’t so positive. The ideas and thoughts this piece of
artwork gives is that this is about clothes and has something to do with
fashion.

TECHNIQUE
The techniques that are used in this picture are pencil, paint and ink. First the
Andy used pencil to make an outline of the whole image, then he used
watercolour paint to fill in the colour and once the paint was dry he used ink
pen to go around all the lines. The watercolour was used carefully and was
blended throughout the clothes. The consistency of the paint was thin as it was
used a little of paint and water to give a flat and not rich colour. There is
not much depth in the picture however we can see a little areas of dark and
light for example on the dress. The colours resemble the actual subject which
was mainly clothes. Cold colours are used such as blue and green. There isn’t
any bright areas that would be eye catching. The texture is smooth and flat as
it was mainly water used.


ARTIST’s CAREER
Andrew Warhola also known as Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US on
the 6th of August 1928. He died age 58 in New York 22nd
February, 1987. Andy was a fourth child in the family and he showed his first
talents when he went to Carnegie Institute of Technology where
he studied commercial art. His fashion and clothing works are when he was quite
young, later in life he did other things such as filmography, music and
paintings. Andy Warhol was popular and he sold one of his works for $ 100
million dollars in 2009 and this was one of the highest prices paid for an art
work.

OPINION
I think his art work that I liked the most was the one I
studied which done by using watercolor, ink and pencil. I think it’s because
when I done one of my images in his style I really liked it and although it did
look quite simple and flat it was still really good. (1987-02-22)