Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

·         Real name is Andrew Warhola (8/6/28-2/22/87) (Became Warhol after a misprint)

o   Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Parents from Czechoslovakia (does not exist anymore)

o   Father worked in a coal mine

·         In High School, kicked out of art club because he was “too good”

·         Graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Fine Arts)

·         Graduated with degree for pictorial design & wanted to become a commercial illustrator

·         Designed advertisements for women’s shoes

·         Used Polaroid camera

·         Fear of hospitals and doctors, hypochondriac

·         Favorite print making technique was silk screening

·         Friends & family described him as a workaholic

·         His sexuality was speculated upon and how this influenced his relationship to art is “a major subject of scholarship on the artist”

·         First solo expedition in 1952

·         Coined the term “15 minutes of fame”

·         1960s: iconic American products (pop art)

·         Created The Factory, his NYC studio from 1962-1968

·         Celebrity portraits developed into one of the most important aspects of his career

·         Made films (first one called Sleep – 6 hours of a man sleeping) (1963)

·         1965 said he was retiring from painting

o   1972 returned to painting

·         Designed cover for the Rolling Stones’ album Sticky Fingers (cover made out of real jean material)

·         Produced Velvet Underground’s first album

·         Started a magazine called Interview, worked for Glamour Magazine, Vogue

·         Shot by Valerie Solanas 3 times for being abusive and “too controlling” (6/3/68)

o   Solanas authored the S.C.U.M. Manifesto, a separatist feminist document

o   "Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television – you don't feel anything. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television."

·         Marilyn Monroe = favorite model (not painted until after death)

·         Wore silver wigs until he dyed his hair silver

·         Practicing Ruthenian Rite Catholic who described himself as a religious person

·         Died of a heart attack brought on by a gall bladder surgery and water intoxication

·         $100,000,000 for one of his paintings (highest amount paid) (“Eight Elvises”)

·         Referred to as the “Prince of Pop”

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Shelby hayley photoshop 2

for this picture i merged the two pictures together using the blending meathod and aslo highered the brightness and contrast of both. i put these two pictures together because you could clearly see the faces and backround for each and they complimented eachother well. i feel like both picture had the same energy because of the brightness and that is why i chose to put them together.

Shelby and Hayley Photoshop

this picture was part of out photo shop quiz. i first created 10 layers and made them all a different threshold. i chose a diferent color for each layer. then i combined all the layers and changed the backround to black and white and used a plastic wrap effect on just the backround.

Family Tree Photoshop

For this picture i took a picture of a tree and decided to cut all of my family members out of other pictures and place them onto the tree. i used about 9 pictures for this one picture. i used the magnetic lasso tol to crop people out and paste onto my tree. finally i used the water paper effect on just the people and animals faces to create a brighter effect on all of them, i even adjusted the opacity so that some of the tree would be visible through their faces.

Cheer Leader Photoshop

This project was very different. Our goal was not to just snap a well framed picture using the basic principles and elements but also to create a picture that was impossible to be taken with just a camera. I took these photos of my friend Shelby in her cheer leading uniform so that I could create a layered picture with similar photos.

First I messed with the brightness and contrast. I made the brightness on both photos higher as well as made the contrast greater so that there would be more of a shiny tone to the picture. I wanted one picture to show through more so than the other so I made one brightness level lower than the other. I also lowered the opacity on both pictures to also create the same effect of one picture showing through more than the other. Also when I was framing the pictures I wanted to make sure I made her emblem, “Premier” a central part of the image. This was one of my main points.

I choose these two pictures because they work well with each other, not against. They are both vertical pictures but one is of her body vertical and the other is of her body horizontal therefore making it so that you can see both pictures clearly. 

                                                                                                                                                                                  

chicken photo shop

For the picture of my chicken, i used the threshold meathod to bring out the dark and light spots. i also changed each layer of the chicken to a different color blue and i used the rainbow effect on the whole picture to change everything in the back round.

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