Portrait Project
by
Kanyarat Kongjan
ANDY WARHOL
10 Interesting facts about ANDY WARHOL
1. Andy Warhol was born on 6th August 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2. He is known for his pop art and his work focuses of the crossover between celebrity, advertising and artistic
expression.
3. He worked with many forms of media, including: painting, printmaking, photography, drawing, sculpture, film
and music.He also started a magazine (called Interview Magazine) and he wrote several books.
4. He called his studio The Factory and it became a famous meeting place for creative people and celebrities.
5. Warhol was a hypochondriac and was scared of hospitals and doctors.
6. In the 1960s he produced a series of paintings of iconic American images and objects, these included: Campbell’s Soup cans, dollar bills, Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley and Coca-Cola bottles.
7. Andy Warhol was shot (and nearly died) on 3rd June 1968. The shooter was Valerie Solanas.
8. In the 1970s Warhol produced work for many celebrities, including: Mick Jagger, John Lennon and Diana Ross.
9. He founded the New York Academy of Art in 1979.
10. Andy Warhol died on 22nd February 1987 following post gallbladder surgery complications. He is buried at St
John the Baptist Byzantine Cemetery, next to his parents.
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BANKSY
10 Interseting Facts about Banksy
1. Banksy was born in Bristol in 1974, the son of a photocopier technician.
2. He claims to have based his work on 3D from Massive Attack.
3. Others have commented that his paintings remind them of the stencil work done by Blek le Rat, who started in
Paris in 1981, and Jef Aerosol, who began in France in 1982.
4. His identity is still shrouded in mystery and remains unknown, although he has compiled a book of his work,
which includes his thoughts, called Wall and Piece
5. Banksy first started stencilling on public streets and walls in the early 1990s.
6. When he first started, he was part of DryBreadZ Crew, a Bristol-based street gang.
7. In the early days, Banksy’s work was mainly freehand and it was only from the late 1990s onwards that he
started using stencils more and more in his work.
8. According to him, he switched to stencilling after he spotted the stencilled serial number of a rubbish lorry
that he was hiding under from the police.
9. Banksy is often controversial and in an exhibition in 2006 in Los Angeles called Barely Legal, which was said to
highlight the issue of world poverty, he painted on a live “elephant in the room”. However, because of complaints
made by animal rights activists the elephant appeared on the last day without the pink and gold wallpaper patterns.
9. He made Monet’s Water Lilly Pond his own by adding a discarded shopping trolley and trash to the painting.
10. Banksy does not sell his work through commercial art galleries.
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eBoy
10 Interseting Facts about eBoy
1. eBoy (“Godfathers of Pixel”) is a pixel art group founded by Kai Vermehr, Steffen Sauerteig and Svend Smital.
2. eboy were founded on May 2, 1997.
3. eBoy is based in Berlin (Germany) and Vancouver (Canada).
4. Kai Vermehr grew up with Nintendo to inspire him, the rest of the eBoys lived in East Germany where video
games did not exist.
5. The first solo UK exhibition of eBoy was at the Minuco underground gallery in Clerkenwell London, England.
6. Their style has gained them a cult following among graphic designers worldwide, as well as a long list of
commercial clients.
7. Their influences come from: “Pop culture... shopping, supermarkets, TV, toy commercials, LEGO, computer
games, the news, magazines.
8. eBoy has worked with brands and companies such as Coca-Cola, MTV, VH1, Adidas, Gola and Honda.
9. They worked on creating the album cover for Groove Armada’s 2007 studio album Soundboy Rock.
10. Their latest project are plastic Peecol toys with Kidrobot, and a line of wooden toys are to be produced under their own label.
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The Original
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The Original
Line Drawing
Paint Drawing
Julain Opie
10 Interesting facts about Julain Opie
1. Julian Opie was born in 1958 in London. However, he was not raised in London, but in Oxford.
2. In 1983, He left University of London. In the campus, he was the student of the famous Michael Craig-Martin. Martin is a painter and conceptual artist.
3. During the British art scene in 1980s, he was considered as an important person. He gained the fame after he
created a series of painted metal structures. He used the steel shaped for the imagery in the painting.
4. Let’s find out about his artistic style. What makes him different with other artists in 1980s is applied on his
themes. He likes to draw the black line with minimal detail. He painted animated walking figures and portrait.
5. Many people analyze that most art works of Opie are involved with the themes of human body, new technology and
art history. Look at another themes of a painter in Juan Gris facts.
6. Indianapolis people must be proud to have one of the greatest works of Julian Opie. The four sided LED sculpture
Ann Dancing was installed in Indianapolis cultural trail in 2010.
7. Bryan Adams is one of the biggest singers in the world. To honor him, Opie was asked to establish a monument for
the famous singer.
8. Another project of Julian Opie was for the National Portrait Gallery. He was requested to create a portrait of Sir
James Dyson. He was an inventor and engineer. Julian made the portrait in 2012 and called it James, Inventor.
9. His works can be seen around the world. You are wrong if you think that they are only located in London. The
installation includes series of glass panels commissioned by St Mary’s Hospital, London, a permanent installation in
Calgary and Promenade.
10. If you like to know the work of Julian Opie, you can go to Great St Helen’s Square, London. It features the Caterina
dancing naked series of Opie.
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Roy Lichtenstein
10 Interesting facts about Roy Lichtenstein
1. Roy Lichtenstein was born on October 27, 1923 in a Jewish family. As a boy he was not a comic book fan although
later, comic strips would provide inspiration for his best known works.
2. Roy Lichtenstein’s initially worked in Cubism and Abstract Expressionism. By late 1950s, however, his works included hidden images of cartoon characters.
3. His 1961 painting Look Mickey is regarded as the bridge between his Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art works.
He created the painting after his son challenged him by pointing out to a Mickey Mouse comic book and saying, “I
bet you can’t paint as good as that, eh, Dad?”4.
5. First time his work was exhibited it was heavily criticized by art critics and the Life magazine went to the extent
of publishing an article whose title asked “Is He the Worst Artist in the U.S.?” Lichtenstein was also called a copycat
by many as his works closely resembled the originals. With time, however, he was considered as one of the greatest artists of the Pop Art Movement.
6. Lichtenstein’s ‘Whaam!’ is an iconic work of the Pop Art movement and perhaps his most famous painting.
‘Whaam!’ is one of the several works by Roy which depict aerial combat. Lichtenstein had a three year stint in the
United States army from 1943 to 1946. During that stint, he was sent to pilot training but the program was cancelled. The other monumental war painting by Lichtenstein is ‘As I Opened Fire’.
7. Along with American filmmaker Joel Freedman, Lichtenstein made a film which was titled ‘Three Landscapes’. It
was a three-screen installation which was related to the series of landscape themed collages he produced between
1964 and 1966. Though Lichtenstein had planned of making 15 short films, Three Landscape was to be his only venture in the medium.
8. The record for the highest auction price for a Roy Lichtenstein work is held by the 1963 painting ‘Woman with
Flowered Hat’ which fetched $56.1 million in May 2013. The painting is based on Pablo Picasso’s ‘Dora Maar au
Chat (Dora Maar with Cat)’ which, at $95.2 million, is one of the most expensive paintings in the world.
9. ‘Drowning Girl’ or ‘I Don’t Care! I’d Rather Sink’ is regarded among Lichtenstein’s most important works, perhaps as significant as ‘Whaam!’ A thought bubble in the painting conveys that the central figure would rather
drown than call her lover Brad for help. One of the most famous works of Pop Art, it has been often described
as a ‘masterpiece of melodrama’. The source of the painting is Tony Abruzzo’s splash page from “Run for Love!”
in Secret Hearts. Lichtenstein also acknowledged that the wave is adapted from Japanese artist Hokusai’s famous print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
10. Roy got married twice. In 1949 he married Isabel Wilson and after divorcing her in 1965, he married Dorothy
Herzka, in 1968. According to his second wife, Roy was in ‘awe of women’. “He had more female friends than
male friends and he may have thought that women were smarter than men, in general.” Roy painted a series of
studies of nude woman, although, it is not very well known.
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