Roy Linchestine & Andy Warhol - Pop Artists

Roy linchestine was born 1293, whom become the most famous pop artist ever known whom art commitment was all about comic strips during the 1960s based on the pop culture. His topics were all based and reflected upon love and violent action which were illustrations on the famous comic strips, yet this wasn’t only his job as apart from comics he also did advertisement.

It all started since he was a kid as he had passion for comic books. As he grew up into a teen, he showed interest in art and eventually started to attend at Parsons School Of Design in 1937 and took watercolour classes followed by graduation later in Manhattan, 1940. Later in ’43 Roy had to stop studies as he has been sent to Europe for WWII. This didn’t stop here, as soon as in 1946 he returned back to Ohio and graduated and got the master’s degree in fine arts. Then, he started to work as a window display designer, commercial art instructor and industrial designer.

As he grew older he showed interest in Pop Art movement as then by 1961 he made a couple of paintings himself that were planted on comic-strips frames. These paintings were painted by bright primary colours followed by a bold black outline to give that cartoon look. He even added letterings and speech bubbles together with the so called Ben-Day dots. 

These Ben-Day dots were nothing but ‘mistakes’ by the printer which back then to printing wasn't as advanced as today, yet not that laid back, but when ink came out it dropped as little dots next to each other for example the red colour would be printed as red dots one next to the other, and in this case to produce skin colour (pink) the ink would be set on a lighter shade of red and the dots will become more spread away so it ‘wouldn't’ look red.

Later in 1966, he has took part in the Venice Bennale and later on in 1969 he exhibited his retro works in Guggenheim Museum. These art works he has shown were for limited audience, as he re-arranged these comic strips from everyday life into provoking art form.

 

Andy Warhol, born on August 6 1928. In his first years Warhol started to attend school and was even learning at the free art classes he took in Carnegie Institute which today is ‘The Carnegie Museum of Art’. Later on as he was about 9 years of age, he received his first camera where Andy used to take pictures, and alone in his basement he developed them all by himself.

As soon as Warhol graduated, he moved to NYE so he could hunt after a career which was as a commercial artist. At the age of 21, his work gave its first appearance in a magazine called Glamour, he then became one of the most famous and successful illustrator of the 50’s whom himself won various awards. This was all because of his unique style he had which was quite amusing when it came to drawing, this was quite a contradict to the traditional drawing/painting as he traced photographs and other images.

        

During the late 1950’s, he gave more time to painting and 2 years after in 61’ he produced his first Pop paintings whom paintings were based on advertisement and comics. This is where his road to a celebrity started; and then for the first time he exhibited his most famous ‘Campbell’s Soup Can’ series which was a beginning of new sense in the art-world. Then he started to produce the famous bright coloured, minimal, ‘photocopy look’, and repeated sequences of movie star’s portraits such as Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley. This did not stop his works here and he showed up in an exhibition with his sculptures in 1964, in this exhibition he included a lot of replicas of product boxes found in everyday life such as Brillo & Heinz boxes.  

A couple of months ago a tribute to Andy Warhol were given, as Perrier Sparkling water and Absolut Vodka produced a series of bottles with the labels which are ‘replicas’ that he created himself years ago. As for Perrier – Warhol have created more than 40 works featuring Perrier bottles so today the company is branding bottles around the world to celebrate it’s 150 years anniversary. And as for Absolut – Andy was the first artist to create artwork for absolut, the colours used on the bottle (blue, black, pink and yellow) are the replicas of the original 'Absolut Warhol' Painting. 

  

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