Andy Warhol

I know Andy Warhol is an American, but he influenced art worldwide. Who doesn't recognize these images? His art is fun...but in my opinion, that is all. The flowers and the colored faces are pretty, the colors pop (it's pop art after all) but it doesn't have meaning the way the work of Matisse or Picasso was meaningful. They used bright colors! Actually, looking at the faces of Marilyn Monroe, I think of Matisse's Woman with a Hat. He uses a variety of colors to paint her face, colors that one would not traditionally use to depict a face. But that is why- he is experimenting with emotion and light.


I visited the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh this summer. One thing that I thought was interesting was that this famous flower icon is actually a stolen image. He saw it in a nature magazine and reversed it (used a mirror image). The woman who actually took the picture could still tell that it was hers and got very angry!