Pinterest, Pop Art and Andy Warhol

Pinterest "The Ideas Catalog for Everyone" is perhaps undervalued among the advertising designers. Looking for inspiration, you can encounter interesting bulletin boards. Here's an example: I looked at Andy Warhol and discovered such a beautifully organized presentation of his work for inspiration. Who was Andy Warhol actually?

Andy Warhol

Warhol is especially famous for his contrasting paintings and screen prints of packaged products and everyday objects. For example, Campbell's soup cans, flowers and the banana from the cover of the album by The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967).

Well-known are the stylized portraits of 20th-century celebrities like Marilyn Monroe, Grace Jones. Elvis Presley, Judy Garland, and Elizabeth Taylor.

Manufacturer of Pop Art

With these images alone Andy Warhols work became very interesting for advertising designers, in particular large-scale paintings of famous American products like Campbell's soup cans and Coca-Cola bottles. Warhol used to use silk screen printing, not just art with everyday commercial mass products as a motive, but also to produce his own art as a mass product. This is the typical feature of Pop Art. Warhol wanted to be a kind of "art manufacturer". You could say he became a manager to a team of art workers specialized in making screen prints, films, books and magazines. The team was active in a studio near Union Square in New York, known as "The Factory". There was a production line of paintings and other art objects. This studio grew into a meeting place for artists, of various stature, well anyone with any artistic pretension was welcome.

Typical American

The original Factory was located in an old hat factory on 231 East 47th Street (fourth floor). After a number of years, this was moved to an office building across the street; 33 Union Street West (sixth floor). This second Factory was called by the Warhol "the Office" because there was also the editorial board of the established by Warhol. Warhol became known worldwide with his screen prints. He made screen prints of any conceivable subject that was appropriate.

Warhol's oeuvre is highly recognizable as an expression of American culture. He painted and signed banknotes, comics, food, women's shoes, celebrities and everyday objects.

Here you can take a look at Pinterest images of Andy Warhol