Elizabeth Row

Art 1b
Elaine OBrien
Comparison paper on Andy Warhol
Potter says in the 1960s Warhol's made his debut in the fine arts. His paintings depicted
celebrities, dollar bills and super market products. These controversial images were created by
techniques of free production and they established new boundaries for originality and esthetic
legibility. Unlike some of the other poop artist that injected their work with irony and parody
Warhol treated them with attachment. He emphasized and even idealized mass production.
Warhol perfected a two layer screen printing technique for his portraits. This was called silk
screening and it created precise images that could mass produce prints, this was considered
appropriate goal because of the duplicative nature of his subjects. This goal is depicted in his
painting called Green Coca Cola Bottles, which he painted in 1962, it was an oil on canvas
painting. "When he painted coca cola bottles he filled his canvas with them in every direction,
suggesting that the line up did not end at the edge." Although Warhol's work was famous and
known all over, the repetition in his works is not unique in the history of art.
In the book, Cliner calls Warhol a quinticnetial American pop artist. He says that Warhol
has a successful career as a commercial artist and illustrator. His knowledge in the visual torch of
advertising in the mass media proceed to be very useful for his pop artwork because he often
depicted artwork that of mass produced artwork such as green coca cola bottles. It is said that
Warhol often favored familiar objects and people. He explains what his attraction to the coke
bottle was. He says "Whats great about this country is that America started the tradition where
the richest consumer buys essentially the same thing as the poorest. You can be watching TV and
see coca cola and you can know that the president drinks coke, Liz Taylor and just think you can
think coke too. A coke is a coke, and no amount of money can get you a better coke." Warhol
used a silk screen technique that allowed him to print the image endlessly. It is said that the
repetition and redundancy of the coke bottle reflected the product in american society. He was so
immersed with the culture of mass production that he created a studio and called it the factory
and this is where he mass produced all of these paintings.