This is America. Гришенкова Е.Г. - 86 стр.

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cans. Through both his art and lifestyle he explored the nature of fame, popular
culture, and the media. His artistic influence and unusual personality redefined the
modern art world.
Andy Warhol was not always famous around the world. He was born in 1928
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His parents were immigrants from Czechoslovakia.
Their last name was Warhola, which Andy later shortened to Warhol. As a child
Andy spent a great deal of time sick in bed. While he was recovering, he would draw
pictures. When his father died, he left enough money for Andy to attend art school.
Andy Warhol attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology where he studied
pictorial design. Pictorial design is the art of creating images and drawings. Often
these drawings are used in the production of advertisements and magazines.
In 1949 Warhol moved to New York City to work as a commercial artist. He
drew pictures for magazines and advertisements. He became very successful. During
the 1950s Warhol drew images for many important magazines such as “Vogue” and
“Harper’s Bazaar.” He also became very well known for a series of ads he made for
shoes. Warhol used his experience in commercial art as an entry into fine art. He
began his painting career as part of the Pop Art movement. This movement was at its
strongest during the 1960s.
Pop Art was defined by images of material goods and popular culture. Pop
artists rejected the serious nature of the art world. To do this, these artists painted or
printed everyday images of things that usually are not considered art. These images
included photographs from magazines, drink advertisements and drawings from
popular comic strips.
Some critics say that Pop Art was a reaction to Abstract Expressionism. Artists
of the Abstract Expressionist movement took themselves very seriously. They did not
approve of popular culture. They thought artists should not be concerned with such
unimportant parts of culture. Pop artists, however, celebrated popular culture in all of
its forms. They approved of using mass media and mass production as an influence in
their art. Pop Art also reflected the rise in wealth and the importance of owning
things that America experienced in the 1950s. One art critic defined Pop art as
popular, low-cost, young, mass-produced and sexy.
One of Warhol’s first exhibits was in 1962. He created thirty-two paintings of
red and white soup cans. These paintings shook the art world. The soup cans looked
like the soup produced by one of America’s most popular food companies,
Campbell’s. Every painting looked the same except for the words written on the can
that described the different kinds of soup.
Warhol used a very smooth painting method so the artwork almost did not look
hand-made. The paintings looked like they came out the same factory that made the
soup cans. No one had ever seen art like this. Warhol also made paintings using

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