What Does the Artist Do?

Andy Warhol was the artist I chose for this assignment whom I will be answering three questions about:
1. What does the artist do?
2. Why are they doing it?
3. List an image of the artists work, or a video, instead of a third fact.

Andy Warhol began as a commercial artist who worked for magazine companies and retail outlets by designing advertisements and illustrations for them. Throughout the nineteen-sixties, he created both paintings and films which have become iconic classics of the 20th century. He was known for his work both nationally and internationally as he traveled around the world exhibiting his work in museums and galleries.

2. The mission or objective that Andy Warhol applied to his work was, paradoxically, not something which he solely intended to be placed upon his work. That is, his objective was to not have an objective, but to compile all of the elements and imagery (advertisements) that bombarded people everyday through the television and magazines and allow them to interpret them without being affected. He wanted to portray the fact that American people were just sitting around and being subject to materials which they neither reacted to, or had a "feeling" towards because they had become comfortable with these overpowering monotonous repetitions which encompassed American society.
Within Warhol's repertoire was also silkscreen prints. The reason I mention this is because he didn't correct the imperfections or uneven surfaces of the prints. He used them to portray how people are passive to things and yet, that they are still subconsciously unaware and subject to the effects which these different media forms have on them.


This is a 16mm film created by Andy Warhol which encompassed the culture and mannerisms of those in the latter part of the 1960's along with his own artistic insights.
It is entitled, "Chelsea Girls."