Andy Warhol
... language. You hear it in sitcoms, movies, news and ordinary conversation although people have no idea who said it first. Warhol first exhibited his famous Campbell’s Soup Cans in Ferus Art Gallery in 1962; from then on his best work was done over a period of 6 years, ending in 1968 when he died. He felt and embodied that in a culture with information, most people experience a good number of things at second or third hand through TV and print, through images that become banal and disassociated. Warhol created many paintings that remain icons of this century’s art, such his Campbell’s Soup and Marilyn’s. Warhol is influenced typically by American state of mind, from the famous image of a celebrity to famous brand names. This had completely replaced both sacredness and solidity. Monet an earlier artist had the same ideas as Warhol, which is painting motif in series, in order to display minute discriminations of perception, the shift of light and color from hour to hour on a haystack, and how th...