Facts –

• Born on August 6th, 1928 but sadly passed away on February 22nd in 1987.
• Experimented with a variety of art forms such as performance art, video illustrations and writing and film-making.
• Took the aesthetic of commercial art/photography and brought in an Avant guard style to it.
• Won many awards for his style of art, and by 1950 developed the idea of “Pop art”, which was seen in his pictures of Campbells soup cans.
• Also made many celebrity portraits.

Examples of his work –

Image analysis –

I think that this picture which has been manipulated into different colours by Andy Warhol in 1971, is very unique and usual which I really like. This is because he has taken a picture of an electric chair, which aren’t used in many places now due to the danger and inhumanity of them, and shown it in different colours. I think that these colours can help to represent different feelings people may have of it.

This can be ranged from; the blue (being sadness), red (anger), black (death/pain), pink (showing love from loved ones), yellow (happiness) and brown/red (revenge). I think that this is a very clever way to show this as it is subtle yet impactful due to the messages which it can create towards the audience.

Therefore for my editing in my second photoshoot, I will use this technique inspired by Andy Warhol because I like how he repeats the same/similar photos in bright colours to create this idea of “pop art” as it is unusual due to the objects which he photographs as many photographers would use a variety of them, whereas Warhol likes to focus on just one main subject photo instead because it creates a deeper message.