What's so great about Andy Warhol's art work?

Question

Perhaps I don't know how to look at them, but when I see his artwork all I see is crap. Please help me or give me some insight to his work.

I don't understand why he is call a "genius" with respect to his art work.

I don't know what the heck ron p. is talking about. He certainly didn't explain it to me well. The fact that I didn't studied art is the reason I asked this question ron.

Help me. Enlighten me. Don't bash me for my ignorance like ron p. Why does he think he's so smart?

Answer 1

Have you ever flipped through People magazine, looked at the photographs of celebrities, and wondered how this culture of photographing celebrities all started? Isn't it so everywhere, so part of your everyday morning coffee life, that you don't even notice?

Celebrity photography is an example of Warhol's many influences in our modern world. Other Warhol's well-known works help pointing out what is invisible to us--what is so "normal" in our American consumerist lives that we shut off from our awareness, like Campbell's soup cans, etc.

Andy Warhol = initiator of Pop Art
Pop Art = portrayal of American consumerist culture, the culture invisible to those currently living it

.. you know how art can't be understood without a context? Warhol's isn't about some extraordinary, abstract portrayal of.. some remote.. ideas. His is what people are immune to: their everyday life.

Answer 2

Warhol created a existence-form surrounded via imaginitive people of all mediums(song,appearing,writers,image,action picture,... . He delivered a number of those people mutually and that they fed off one yet another. He led an entire new form. even though if or not you like it he replaced into an important tension in twentieth century artwork. He did all forms of artwork besides the silkscreens & soup cans. you do not could agree which include your instructor or absolutely everyone else, artwork is an argument of decision so locate the stuff you like and admire others opinion and optimistically they'll admire yours. somebody might say that approximately your artwork sometime yet do not permit it discourage you. while Picasso first confirmed the portray Demoiselles d'Avignon the universal public & critics hated it , this replaced into his first exhibiting of cubism and now he's one in each and all of the super masters of all time. As for merchandising and marketing your self, it fairly is a normally happening factor. the extra suitable you're at getting your call accessible, the extra suitable your probabilities of finding others who like what you do. Thats what a stable agent is for.

Answer 3

I had a difficult time appreciating Andy Warhol's work too. Then I began to think about it, as art as crime, a kind of proto- Subgenius, pull the wool over your own eyes kind of thing. It was only then that I understood the brilliance. Art as the ultimate con, kind of like some of the schemes put forth by the character Mr Wednesday in American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

Answer 4

"it's all crap" is a reasonable response to art. But seriously, you don't get simple modern representational art? all he's doing (imho) is holding up objects from pop culture of his day and saying "look, this very ordinary object object from this time period is in fact timeless and worthy of being given the name 'art'". He's sort of like this generic fame groupie (for instance, he did this thing of Marilyn Monroe who was famous enough on her own, all he did was to say her type of fame was timeless). He was the guy who said "everybody had 15 minutes of fame" and the art was a way of capturing it. That said I don't know if he ever said anything else along those lines (that was all he talked about for his 15 minutes of fame).

Answer 5

It is all crap, and that is the way the art world is, with the right promoter, and art buyers invest and there is go's, a big price on some pieces and then other buyer's think they need to get in on it too

Answer 6

i really dont think its genius at all but i do think hes creative. its all about people likeing your artwork, if a few important critics like it, youre in! that sucks because im an artist and i know my work is great! but then again people have different opinions and its hard to get your foot in the door for you to get known.

Answer 7

Another Art Snob..big deal!!!!!
Have you studied any art history?
All art is a reaction to the time it was produced in.
It is an individuals statement to what is "the mindset" of society, what it elects or neglects to value.
At the time the commercialisation of
American icons...
He took it to the extreme, not even making the pieces himself, but having others do the work in a studio--called "the factory".
Screen prints which could be produced in infinite number but were always of a limited run to maintain their "value".
Punk art of the first degree
You so quick to judge-----let"s see your artwork, your contribution, your talent and insight. show us what you can do besides judge others.
Well?

Answer 8

hehe your funny i know right, well whatever i love the painting with the guns, i like guns and razorblades

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Answer 9

it is crap, come on, a tomato soup can, real ingenious