Julia Fusco
10/21/08
s.s N.H.D.
Thesis Statement: N.H.D.

Andy Warhol’s Soup: More Than Meets the Eye


During the 1960s there were new ideas and change is society.A change in art was pop art. He made people think about art in a new way Andy Warhol, great individual in art history, was the man who came up with the idea of Pop Art. Some people wanted paintings of what they saw in their everyday life. That is what Andy Warhol painted, things he saw in every day life. For example, he painted soup cans because they were what he had for lunch. There were critics who did not like the idea of painting things that were considered unimportant. People asked him “is this considered art?” He threw the question back in their face by saying “Why isn’t it art?” Warhol had an unusual personality and his look stood out, and he that became known to people around the world. He was know for taking portraits of famous people, like Marilyn Monroe, and changed the color of it and did it over so that you notice parts of that painting. He liked to have repetition in his art. He took modern art to the next level by painting the things people would never think of as art; and by turning the question” is that painting art” around. . He influenced new modern art such as Rene Margritte or people who paint things that do not make sense or are not real. Because of Warhol, the definition of art is expanded.