



The few images above were some more popular works of Warhols( in my opinion), I think they are amazing. The way that Warhol works was screen printing and uses of paint as well.In this way of working, he was able make lots of copy of one image and put different crazy combination of colors on them, and I think this encourge him to do so. Also, because of how easy to make an image on the work, you could often see his works are with like thousand of a same image repeating and repeating all over again. This also what pop art does, its like heaps of images coming to you. The subject matter of Warhols works are obvious,its about popular culture or like things around us eg. micky mouse,campbell soup etc. And the works of these images are so straight forward, the message is coming straight to you.
The artist that I could think about that could compare to Warhol is Rosenquist (I know I talked about him a lot already haha, but they are really related in my opinion).
Although their way of working are not too similar since Warhol was using more of screen printing and Rosenquist was more like a painter, their subject matter was really similar or even the same. They both use the subject matter of popular culture like people(artists,prisdent), objects(cars,food) and they both used Marilyn Monroe as a subject matter as well haha.
Also, the colours of their works are colourful which grab people attention really well. The method of repeating images is not often use in rosenquist works but i could find one?

but i think this is not as successful as Warhols works cause i reckon the unreal colors that had been used in his works are easier to get peoples' attention.
And these are the opinion of mine on how their works are related to each others.
It would have been great if you could have related these artists - or indeed pop as a whole - to the idea of "Surface" which was discussed in the lecture. Also, while you have located many images, you don't seem to have done any background reading on Warhol. This would help give you better marks, especially if you could locate some really interesting quotes. What about quotes from Warhol himself? Since he said some very interesting things about art making. Have you ever read his Philosophy of Andy Warhol, From A to B and Back Again? It's really good...
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