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Andy Warhol – born Andrew Warhola, on August 6th of 1928 – was a famous American printer maker, painter, and film maker. It was his unique style that inspired the pop art movement. He was born into a family of Slovakian immigrants. Warhol had two older brothers (neither showed any artistic tendency, but the son of Pavlov – Warhol’s eldest brother – did go on to become a successful illustrator of children’s books). After a sickly childhood in Pittsburgh, PA, Warhol moved to New York City in1949 to better pursue his trade. He had studied art in Pittsburgh at what is now called the Carnegie Mellon University, then began a career in magazine illustration and advertising after moving to NYC.
Through the years, Andy dabbled in every artistic medium from record producer to author. However, undoubtedly created the most impact via his paintings. Like his colorful, somewhat obscure-looking artwork, Warhol himself was definitely an eccentric human being. In photographs he is almost always wearing a pair of gaudy, overly-round glasses. His hair appears eternally windblown, and he wears a perpetual smirk on his face. Unsurprisingly, he was also famous for the company he kept; Bohemian street people, celebrities, and weird but distinguished intellectuals.
Warhol worked with many different designs but was best known for his pop art – an experimental art form that several artists were independently adopting (among them, Roy Lichtenstein) at the time. Known as the “Pope of Pop”, Andy Warhol turned to this new style, where popular subjects became part of the artist’s palette. His early paintings show images taken from cartoons and advertisements, hand-painted with paint drips. Those drips emulated the style of successful abstract expressionists like Willem de Kooning.
The title of the Warhol painting I’ve chosen to be my inspiration is very simply “Flowers”, the underlying theme of which is said to be life and death. Despite its extremely basic subject matter – a cluster of brightly-colored hibiscus flowers against a backdrop of dark grass – “Flowers” was actually a fairly controversial painting for Warhol. It earned him critical acclaim as well as a lawsuit, after a lady named Patricia Caulfield claimed the painting was a replication of one of her photographs. The matter was settled with money, but after the incident Warhol was more careful to use pictures he had taken himself when looking for subjects to paint.
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