Andy WarholAndy WarholSilkscreen processSilkscreen process

Digital Photography IDigital Photography I

Andy Warhol Andy Warhol 1928-19871928-1987

Leading artist Leading artist in the pop art in the pop art movementmovement

Combined high Combined high art and mass art and mass cultureculture

Painter, Painter, filmmaker, filmmaker, printmakerprintmaker

Pop Art MovementPop Art Movement

““Pop art and pop culture refers to the Pop art and pop culture refers to the products of the mass media evolving in the products of the mass media evolving in the late 1950s and 60s and also to the works late 1950s and 60s and also to the works of art that draw upon popular culture - of art that draw upon popular culture - packaging, television, advertisements, packaging, television, advertisements, comic books, the cinema.”(getpopart.com)comic books, the cinema.”(getpopart.com)

Originally began in Britain in the 1950s Originally began in Britain in the 1950s Unlimited reproductions could be made Unlimited reproductions could be made (controversial)(controversial)

ProcessProcess

Silkscreen (serigraphy)Silkscreen (serigraphy) - a printmaking - a printmaking technique in which a mesh cloth is technique in which a mesh cloth is stretched over a heavy wooden frame and stretched over a heavy wooden frame and the design, painted on the screen by the design, painted on the screen by tusche or affixed by stencil, is printed tusche or affixed by stencil, is printed by having a squeegee force color through by having a squeegee force color through the pores of the material in areas not the pores of the material in areas not blocked out by a glue sizing.blocked out by a glue sizing.

Tusche Tusche - a grease-like liquid used in - a grease-like liquid used in lithography as a medium receptive to lithography as a medium receptive to lithographic ink, and in etching and lithographic ink, and in etching and silkscreen as a resist.silkscreen as a resist.

Andy WarholAndy Warhol

Left: Self PortraitLeft: Self Portrait Right: Campbell Soup Can Series IIRight: Campbell Soup Can Series II

Celebrity PrintsCelebrity Prints

Left: JackieLeft: Jackie Right: 16 Jackie'sRight: 16 Jackie's

Famous PrintsFamous Prints

Left: BeethovenLeft: Beethoven Right: Ingrid with a HatRight: Ingrid with a Hat

Art Historical PrintsArt Historical Prints

Left: Birth of VenusLeft: Birth of Venus Right: Birth of VenusRight: Birth of Venus

Marilyn PrintsMarilyn Prints

Left: MarilynLeft: Marilyn Right: MarilynRight: Marilyn

More PrintsMore Prints

Left: ZebraLeft: Zebra Middle: Mao #91Middle: Mao #91 Right: FlowersRight: Flowers

Silkscreen style on PhotoshopSilkscreen style on Photoshop

Over the weekend....Over the weekend....

Take Take 4 formal photos 4 formal photos 4 informal photos 4 informal photos 4 candid photos4 candid photos

ReferencesReferences

Beardsworth, John. Beardsworth, John. Photoshop: Fine Art Effects Photoshop: Fine Art Effects Cookbook. Cookbook. Silkscreen Style pp. 160-161.Silkscreen Style pp. 160-161. The Ilex The Ilex Press Limited, Press Limited, 2006.2006.

Warhols.com by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Warhols.com by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Visual Arts. www.warhols.com/portraits.html. Arts. www.warhols.com/portraits.html. Accessed 16 Accessed 16 February 2009.February 2009.

The Andy Warhol Museum Website. The Andy Warhol Museum Website. www.warhol.org/default.asp. www.warhol.org/default.asp. Accessed 16 February Accessed 16 February 2009.2009.

Cybermuse: Your Art Education Research Site. Cybermuse: Your Art Education Research Site. Cybermuse.gallery.ca. Accessed 16 February 2009.Cybermuse.gallery.ca. Accessed 16 February 2009.

GetPopArt.com. www.getpopart.com/pop-art.html. GetPopArt.com. www.getpopart.com/pop-art.html. Accessed 19 Accessed 19 February 2009.February 2009.