week 10

Andy Warhol is most well known for his pop art with which he became very successful early in his career as a commercial artist working for companies such as Vogue magazine in New York.  In addition to his main emphasis on the art of painting and graphic design, one of his most famous works being Campbell’s Soup Cans, Warhol experimented with 16mm film creating Empire which is an eight hour long static shot of the Empire State Building as dusk turns to night.  At the peak of his career Warhol began to commentate in the repetitious and product-nature of pop art.  His painting Marilyn Monroe, consisting of a portrait of the actress replicated four times each with different color schemes, identifies with Warhol’s view on what he believed pop art was becoming.  I’ve included a YouTube video in this blog of a 1964 interview with Andy Warhol about the debut of his new design for Brillo.  The video offers a somewhat humorous look at Warhol’s behavior on camera but also succinctly affirms his conviction of the repetition of pop art.