Andy Warhol Photography

Andy Warhol

· Real name is Andrew Warhola (8/6/28-2/22/87) (Became Warhol after a misprint)

o Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Parents from Czechoslovakia (does not exist anymore)

o Father worked in a coal mine

· In High School, kicked out of art club because he was “too good”

· Graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Fine Arts)

· Graduated with degree for pictorial design & wanted to become a commercial illustrator

· Designed advertisements for women’s shoes

· Used Polaroid camera

· Fear of hospitals and doctors, hypochondriac

· Favorite print making technique was silk screening

· Friends & family described him as a workaholic

· His sexuality was speculated upon and how this influenced his relationship to art is “a major subject of scholarship on the artist”

· First solo expedition in 1952

· Coined the term “15 minutes of fame”

· 1960s: iconic American products (pop art)

· Created The Factory, his NYC studio from 1962-1968

· Celebrity portraits developed into one of the most important aspects of his career

· Made films (first one called Sleep – 6 hours of a man sleeping) (1963)

· 1965 said he was retiring from painting

o 1972 returned to painting

· Designed cover for the Rolling Stones’ album Sticky Fingers (cover made out of real jean material)

· Produced Velvet Underground’s first album

· Started a magazine called Interview, worked for Glamour Magazine, Vogue

· Shot by Valerie Solanas 3 times for being abusive and “too controlling” (6/3/68)

o Solanas authored the S.C.U.M. Manifesto, a separatist feminist document

o "Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television – you don't feel anything. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television."

· Marilyn Monroe = favorite model (not painted until after death)

· Wore silver wigs until he dyed his hair silver

· Practicing Ruthenian Rite Catholic who described himself as a religious person

· Died of a heart attack brought on by a gall bladder surgery and water intoxication

· $100,000,000 for one of his paintings (highest amount paid) (“Eight Elvises”)

· Referred to as the “Prince of Pop”

Portrait: Mom

4-Square: Canned Vegetables
Pop Object: Juice Squeeze

Photoshop Explanations

I blended two images together to create this picture. I picked two images and made sure they were the same size. I chose the picture with the piano as my target image. That means it's the background images, the main one. I made a duplicate layer of the background layer. I then went to image and apply. Once the picture had been applied to the other picture with the piano I changed the opacity. I made the opacity around 70%. The difference between this picture and the other blended image was that I used a gradient map on the flower image before blending it with the piano. I chose an orange gradient and made it darken across the flower.
In the beginning, I used the magnetic lasso tool to copy and paste my dog on a new layer. I did the threshold process on the picture of just my dog. I made a duplicate background layer and made ten layers of it. I used threshold on each layer and started with the top layer showing only a little black and ending with the bottom layer, which was completely black. Starting on the top layer and working my way down, I used the magic wand tool to delete all the white in the picture. After deleting the white on that layer, I made sure all the pixels were highlighted and I would pick the color I wanted the black to become and clicked control and backspace at the same time. I did this for each layer working my way down to the bottom layer; the only difference for each layer was the color I chose. The top layer has the darkest color and the bottom layer has lightest color. Also, I made the duplicate background layer black and white and put a filter on it. I used the glass filter I think. I changed the settings of it until I was happy with it.The way I created this picture was by copying Alex and pasting her onto the other picture. First, I made a duplicate layer of the background layer. Second, I desaturated the image of the road and I put a artistic filter on it. I believe it is the colored pencils one, but I changed the amount of lines and darkness until I liked it. Third, I used the magnetic lasso tool to select Alex. Then I copied and pasted her onto the other image to get this picture.

I blended two images together to create this picture. I picked two images and made sure they were the same size. I chose the picture with all the seniors in it as my target image. That means it's the background images, the main one. I made a duplicate layer of the background layer. I then went to image and apply. Once the picture had been applied to the other picture with all the seniors I changed the opacity. I made the opacity around 60%, so that the top image of Rachel looked faded.I used a fisheye effect on this picture. I took a picture of flowers and then made a duplicate of the background layer. I used the elleptical marquee tool to select a part of the picture. If you hold down the shift key you can get a perfect circle. Once I have the circle around the portion I want, I go to select inverse and then hit delete. Now the image is just in the fisheye lens. I reverse my selection, so that the whole selection back in the fisheye lens. I crop the picture so it's only of the fisheye lens. I go to the filters and select the spherize filter under distort. I can change how much I want to distort it, and after I click ok the picture looks like it was taken with a fisheye lens.

Final Photoshop

Our assignment was to create a picture using the skills we learned using Photoshop. In the beginning, I used the magnetic lasso tool to copy and paste my keychain on a new layer. I did the threshold process on the picture of just my keychain. I made a duplicate background layer and made ten layers of it. I used threshold on each layer and started with the top layer showing only a little black and ending with the bottom layer, which was completely black. Starting on the top layer and working my way down, I used the magic wand tool to delete all the white in the picture. After deleting the white on that layer, I made sure all the pixels were highlighted and I would pick the color I wanted the black to become and clicked control and backspace at the same time. I did this for each layer working my way down to the bottom layer; the only difference for each layer was the color I chose. The top layer has the darkest color and the bottom layer has lightest color.

After the threshold, I decided I wanted to use one of my landscape photos as the background for my keychain threshold picture. I had to check the image sizes for both picture and make sure they matched before I could combine the pictures. I made the keychain photo the same size as the landscape photo. After that I used the marquee selection tool to select the whole landscape picture. I copied the selection and pasted it onto the keychain photo. I put the landscape layer underneath all the other threshold layers, and this made it look like the background of the keychain picture.

I wanted the landscape picture to look different, so I used a gradient map on the landscape picture layer. I chose a gradient that had pink in it. I put that on the picture of the landscape. After that I chose an artistic filter for the landscape layer too. I picked the neon filter. Lastly, I selected a photo filter to put on the landscape picture, even thought it had the gradient map. The cooling filter 82 is the filter I picked. This is why the background has pink and blue in it.