Tuesday, 8 December 2009

Warhol work with silk screening

Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil. A roller is moved across the screen stencil, forcing the ink past the threads of the woven mesh in the open areas.

Warhol frequently used silk-screening; his later drawings were traced from slide projections. At the height of his fame as a painter, Warhol had several assistants who produced his silk-screen multiples, following his directions to make different versions and variations.

examples of this are the coca cola bottles and the dollar bills works he did:
Warhol used silk screening in his works to show how thing get popular as they are mass produced.

The main themes Warhol focused on where famous people for example Elvis and Marylin and also focused on brands like coca cola and soup. by reproducing them over and over in this works.

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Pop Mix


A mix of some of the most popular peaces of pop art at the time for different artists which include:

Andy Warhol: green coca cola bottles - 1962 and Campbell's soup can - 1962
Jasper John: target with four faces - 1955
Roy Lichtenstein: Whaam! - 1963
Robert Rauschenberg: Retroactive I - 1964
and
David Hockney's: A bigger splash - 1967