Andy Warhol

About Andy Warhol : watch the videos, do the games and read from that very good website.

Warhol's short biography, from www.biography.com .

Andy Warhol on Prezi

by Renée Maufroid.

To play a game and learn more about Warhol, click here.

Silkscreen printing (= "sérigraphie" in French) : one of Warhol's techniques. Watch the video below.

POP ART

Why Pop Art?

Reaction to Abstract Expressionism

Pop art was also in many ways a reaction against Abstract Expressionism, the dominant artistic movement in the United States in the 1950's. The highly expressive motivation and spontaneous technique of such Abstract Expressionists as Jackson Pollock and Hans Hoffman lies in stark opposition to the depersonalized, objectified work of the Pop Artist. Emphasizing the concept of the real world in an objectified image such as a soup can, Pop Art directly refutes the emotional content of such figure less paintings as Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles. To opposite poles these two movements reach. Abstract expressionists delve deeply into the personal, the individual psyche while the Pop artist looks out towards the objects of the world.

From http://course1.winona.edu/geddy/Eng353/popart.html

To finish with, this is Sunday Morning, by the Velvet Underground, the group which was produced by A. Warhol in the 1960s.

If you want to listen to Lou Reed, an ex-member of the Velvet Underground, go to the music page of this website.