First Day of Blogging

Wow this is my first day of blogging on my new art web based blog

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Post 9


Andy Warhol

This artwork may be describing the cult of celebrity, which is a term that describes how the world through global proliferation views the fame of certain individual. In this case it usually for a short period of time and that nobody fame will last forever.  This text may portray a message that also describes how through many different mediums anyone can become famous, since the text use the word “everybody”. The artwork uses several visual Postmodern Visual Strategies. One is “text and image”, because the artist denotes the meaning with combination of the two. The artist uses another Postmodern Visual Strategies, which is called “representi’n”. The artist displays a picture in the background that portrays a man wearing sunglasses, who seems to be exerting a cool and arrogant attitude. Many will look at that image and think to themselves that this person is popular and well known. Thus expressing they he may be famous.      

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