Andy Warhol 200 one dollar bills Lines

I took a piece we went over in class by Andy Warhol. It was the painting of money done in 1962. There is many ways to interpret this painting but I have my own interpretations and reasons for picking this specific painting.

Personally I enjoy looking at this painting because I see it as the greed people have towards money. In America specifically, money is the number one goal for most people and a way to get out of the positions they are in. I feel that Andy Warhol is trying to perceive peoples thirst for money and power through his painting.

I feel that this painting would fit perfectly inside a corporate office for many of the basic reasons. Due to the fact that this painting has to do strictly with money and power I feel that American Corporations and their endless goal of profit maximization at the expense of human labor would be a clear fit. In addition Warhol’s painting would fit well in offices and even some homes. Being such a simplified painting, it shows a lot and can be seen in many lights.

Overall I would definitely recommend this painting to businesses as well as certain public locations that have many walk-ins. It is very inspiring personally as a finance major looking to make it in the business world. It is definitely a painting I would purchase in the future.

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The White Mask

Otto Dix.... very interesting... after looking at the rest of his work of arts only one stood out to me. This painting elaborates color, feature, image, and depiction. World War II could be looked at in so many ways. Otto extrapolates the very image of what WWII was absolutely about. In this painting you immediately grab the image of white. What does that exactly mean? It takes you away from the rest of the image that your ignorance refuses to see. Look into the piece of art much thoroughly and deeper and you begin to grasp at detail. There's 5 individuals in the painting and each person could be taken away from the image they depict. Take down each soldier and it posterizes what WWII was and used to be. Stalemate, gas warfare, and shellshock. Each soldier can be a ghost; living or not living and yet his image and soul continues to carry on. Otto Dix is an extremely talented artist and I look forward to each of his paintings.

Campbell's Soup

Andy Warhol was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker. He was the leading figure in the visual art movement known as "pop art." The painting to the left is one of Warhol's original 32 Campbell Soup Cans. In the year 1962, Andy released these soup cans done in synthetic polymer paint drawn onto canvases.

At first glance, the Campbell soup is not that impressive at all. You say to yourself, "exactly what's so important about it and why the hell did these 32 canvases sell for so much money?" But then you begin to look into Warhol's reasoning for the painting and you start to view the 32 soup cans much differently. Each can begins to take a new and unique shape. Andy might not have used his imagination, but the commercialized style and blandness of each painting retract their own character.

Andy was asked by a good friend of his as to the meaning of the Campbell Soup can. He replied, "I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and that was it." The ordinariness of the soup cans emphasized the "nothingness" of the subject matter. A soup can was a soup can was a soup can.

After Andy explained the meaning of his contemporary work, the uniqueness of what he sought and what he wanted out of it is quite impressive. These 32 canvases impose a different meaning as to what is seen as "art." Andy simply took a household, recognized grocery item and turned it into a masterpiece. How that is achievable is fascinating in its own decree. Not only were the Campbell Soup Cans looked upon as a masterpiece, they also represent the timeline of Warhol's life as a contemporary artist.