This document discusses several famous artworks and asks questions to analyze the key details and techniques used in each. It mentions artworks like The Birth of Venus by Botticelli, images by Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, Gary Hume, and Robert Rauschenburg's Buffalo II. The questions prompt the reader to identify subjects, time periods, mediums, techniques, themes, and differences between the pieces.
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1. Do you recognise this famous person ? Why has her image been used in fine art? What era? What medium?
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Marilyn Monroe – 1950’s icon (Actress, Model, Socialite) . Silk screen print by Andy Warhol. Why has her image been used in fine art (why was venus?). It mirrored what was going on in social culture at the time. Pop Artist based in New York in the 1960’s. Factory, Llikes Cats, Wears wigs, Was nearly every killed by one of his workers, she said up an organisation called ‘SCUM (society for cutting up men)’ of which she was the sole member. She did it because ‘he had to much control over my life’. Warhol never fully recovered from his injuries and had to wear a bandage around his waist for the rest of his life. He died in 1987. At the age of 64.
2D + 5 coloured screen print. A simplified face image. Compared to Warhol’s Marilyn. Marilyn is photographic, while Gary Hume is simple shapes that make up a face.
Subject matter is garage – using everyday scene made into art
Birth of venus – Andy Warhol – silkscreen on canvas Botticelli’s birth of venus – oil painting . What do they both have in common – goddess of their era Marilyn in 1950’s and Venus in 14 th century
Space dust 1989 – tyler graphic company – print industry – leaflet, flyers, book cover using every day imagery. What do you spot here that you would use everyday ie pencil
American artist using lithographic imagery, painting, screen printing. What is the subject here- political – outbreak of Vietnam look at composition
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