Wystawie w Galerii MCK pt. „Andy Warhol. Konteksty” towarzyszy projekt edukacyjny pt. „Lekcja sztuki z Warholem” dofinansowany przez Fundację Kronenberga przy Citi Handlowy. Gallery lesson
Andy Warhol. Contests
Exercises: 1.
Text: Winston Churchill, march 5th, 1946 Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri […] From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow. Athens alone ­ Greece with its immortal glories ­ is free to decide its future at an election under British, American and French observation. The Russian­dominated Polish Government has been encouraged to make enormous and wrongful inroads upon Germany, and mass expulsions of millions of Germans on a scale grievous and undreamed­of are now taking place. The Communist parties, which were very small in all these Eastern States of Europe, have been raised to pre­eminence and power far beyond their numbers and are seeking everywhere to obtain totalitarian control. Police governments are prevailing in nearly every case, and so far, except in Czechoslovakia, there is no true democracy[…] 2.
Political and military tension between powers in the Western world, dominated by United States, versus powers in the Eastern world dominated by Soviet Union USSR, called ________ _________ , led to military conflicts – _________ War ( 1950 – 53) and _________War ( 1955‐75). West and East competed to have the best armed forces, ___________, by producing larger numbers of weapons, greater armies, or superior military technology in a technological escalation. _________, an art movement, was the voice of protest against the elitist tendencies in art. Apart from Andy Warhol, pop art was represented by such artists like R___ L_____________ , C________ O_________________ , J________ J_________ i R_________ R_______________ . ___________ was the most popular graphic technique, used by these artist. The Warhol’s studio, called The ___________, was a place where artists and celebrities have been meeting and taking part in Andy’s projects, ex. films. A __________ is one of the latest works by Warhol and could be interpreted as his artistic credo .