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Andy Warhol was a bastion of improbability, an actor with the world as his stage and an artist who implemented the common into the guise of the extraordinary. The images that the world associates with Warhol include soup cans, brillo boxes, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Mao Tse-tung. This 10 page paper explores the life, work and significance of Andy Warhol to the pop art movement. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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actor with the world as his stage and an artist who implemented the common into the guise of the extraordinary. The images that the world associates with Warhol include
soup cans, brillo boxes, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Mao Tse-tung. According to Cliff Edwards, "Warhol has often been portrayed as obsessed with commercial success. He courted the
wealthy and famous, surrounded himself with the denizens of the drug culture and hired beautiful young men to pose for his "pornonudes" (289). But, there may well be a
second side. In a book by "Jane Dillenberger, art historian and dean of the religion and art movement in American seminaries, quite another Warhol is presented. A shy,
reclusive, and religious son of the pious Byzantine Catholic immigrant Warhola family. She speaks of Warhols deep personal piety, and notes that he attended church regularly, fed the poor
on holidays, and concluded his career by producing a cycle of profoundly religious paintings" (Edwards 289). Warhol was a man who impacted not only the art world with
his paintings, sculptures, drawings and silkscreens, or the world of film when he chose to delve into that genre, but he influenced an entire cultural trend that touched the world
of fashion design, music and social norms and mores. His pop theories were interpreted and used by David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Brian Ferry, and other glitter performers.
Warhol was instrumental in developing social networks of artistic and musical production around the concepts and philosophies of both glitter rock and the pop art movement (Schuth 160).
He was an artist that incorporated the common and everyday in his works, emphasizing the connection between creativity and commodity. Through his use of popular icon and imagery
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