Andy Warhol

Within what art genre did Warhol work?

Pop art

Define the genre?

Class or category of artistic endeavor having a particularform, content, technique.

During what years was he alive?

1928~1987

Post 2 samples of his art. Answer the following questions for each piece.

Title of the piece?

The first one was called eight Elvises

The second was of Marylyn Monroe

Describe the color that he utilizes. Does he use any particular color scheme?

In the first one, he uses different shades of white and black and as the next elvis appears it gets less color, making it seem like elvis is going to go invisible or disappear, and there getting closes and closer as the number increases.

For the Marylyn Monroe one, he used many different types of colors that would get a persons attention. In each square he uses 5 different types of color.

What do you notice about the artwork itself?

What I notice in his artwork is that he utilizes many different colors in most of his paintings and he uses colors we are not used to seeing in faces, and objects.