Project: ART
Mission n°  Giving an oral presentation about a Pop Artist
GO TO THE WEBSITES INDICATED BELOW TO FIND THE
INFORMATION ABOUT ANDY WARHOL.
1. When and where was Andy Warhol born?
http://www.artelino.com/articles/andy_warhol.asp
He was born on August 6th, 1928 in Pittsburgh
2. Where did he study? When did he graduate?
Go to GOOGLE enter “artsmart for kids”
Click on “Artists and Artistic style” (right-hand menu)
Find “Pop Art” in the List, click on “Warhol”
He studied commercial art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in
Pittsburgh. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design in 1945.
3. Where did he go after college? What was his first job?
He moved to NYC and began illustrating for magazines and doing
advertisements. He became an illustrator.
4. What did he become popular for?
He became popular for drawing shoes
5. What sort of paintings did he create in the 1960’s?
Go to http://arthistory.about.com/cs/namesww/p/warhol.htm
He created the Coca Cola bottles, the Campbell’s soup cans, the dollar bills
paintings and he pictured celebrities
6. What technique did Warhol develop?
He developed the technique of projecting photographic images to a silk
screen / serigraphy
7. What did this process enable him to produce?
He could produce repetitive patterns with the same piece relatively quickly
8. Quote two famous paintings in which he used that process.
9. Marilyns, Campbell’s soups, John Lennon, Jackies.
10.
In the 60’s in what place did he work?
https://www.artquotes.net/masters/warhol-biography.htm
He worked in his studio (workshop) called “the Factory”, a large building
located on Union Square in NYC.
11. Warhol wasn’t just a painter, what did he start doing in that place?
He also started making 16mm films
12. When and where did he die?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/review96/fishotandywarhol.htm
He died on February 22nd 1987 in NYC
13. Find the name of this painting and its date of creation. In what museum can
you see it?
http://mod42012museumexperience.blogspot.fr/2012/05/met.html
Nine Jackies, 1964, Metropolitan Museum of Art MET, NYC