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Warhol Notes

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”

Warhol

Landscape

Grandlandscape

 

Rocks

Bushes

Little Toy

Blended

Giants winning the World Series along with the American Flag in the background

Copy and Paste

Buster Posey in the creek!

FISHHHEEYYEEEEEEEE

Architecture Photos

Heidi Kirkpatrick Landscape Photographer

Heidi Kirkpatrick's Photography

Heidi was born in 1959 in Springfield, Ohio.Based in Portland Oregon 

Kirkpatrick’s work is included in collections at The Museum of Fine Arts in Huoston, and also a lot of other places as well, where a large variety of her work was being displayed. She develops her own images by using silver gelatin printing and other ways as well. Heidi takes her amazing pictures using a Holga which is a very simple camera that is almost $25 and very simple and it costs more probally to develop the actual film than the actual cost camera itself. In 2004 she started teaching at Northwest Academy high school. Her work often shows a view of the world through the eyes of women.

Here are examples of her work;

Here is what the camera (Holga) looks like, the one that she used to take the shots shown above;

Landscape Notes

Abstracted Elements in the Landscape

• abstracted elements are images made up of lines, shapes, values, and textures throughout all the picture.
• a good way to turn an ordinary scene into an abstract image is to go up really close using a macro setting usually and looking only at one perspective of it and focusing in on that one area.
• look for interesting shapes will help you recieve the best abstract pictures that you can get in a picture

Landscape Details and Close-ups

• Fall's beautiful foliage or extravagent flowers during spring will add color to your photos of landscape details and a different feeling to them as well.
• Light meters are designed to create an exposure that makes medium or middle gray seem metered
• with lighter values = open the f-stop or slow down shutter speed for longer exposure
• for darker values = close the f-stop or choose faster shutter speed for shorter exposure

The Grand Landscape:

• the grand landscape is the "big view" for pictures of the great outdoors because of the wide openness that doesn't limit you
• grand landscapes always include a large amount of the scene and then they also look good when using widelenses

     Thinking artistically:

• Composition is one of the most important aspects of landscape photography 
• view point also affects how the picture comes out looking
• try out a lot of different views when taking a picture before you settle on one.

• value is important
• try to get balance between unity and variety because it creates a good looking photograph

     Camera Settings:

• smaller fstop means longer shutter speeds , meaning more exposure.

      Light:

• many  photographers shoot mostly just after sunrise and right before sunset "golden hours"
• and color of light is warm gold-value is importan, images with wide range of tones are more dramatic & those with smaller range are more calm feeling, so tones play a big deal in the feel of your picture

• Camera Support:

• Tripods are useful to get a sharp and clear images that come out looking really nice

Architecture Notes

• The Big View
• · Wide angel over all view
• · Image that shows you the whole building
• · Try and capture the objects shadow
• o lines, shapes, and value of the object
• The Detail Shot
• · The individual architectural elements of a buildings interior or exterior
• o Door
• o brick
• Interior Views
• ·S Slow f-stop
• Interior Shots
• Limited area to place camera
• indirect portrait of peoples presencePhotographing the Built Enviorment
• Think artistically
• Use line to lead the viewer's eye
• Consider the buildings surroundings and how that affects the shot
• Pattern strengthens images
• The sharper the better
• Thinking Artistically...
• What are the emotions of the space
• What is the idea of the space as a whole
• Patterns - bricks, fabric, wallpaper, columns, etc.

In Class Movie Notes

• First paper to sell itself with pictures, with big and a lot of photograph was the Daily News
• Pictures were used to attract attention from comsumer so that they would buy there newspaper instead of others
• Lots of papers were filled with lots of scandals
• They began to starting to have people to pose in there papers to create new stories that had never been shown before
• Biggest news on the Daily News was when he snuck in a camera on his ankle to get the picture of a man being excecuted
• Photography helped advertistment
• People believed that photographs were true and that drawings could lie to them and companies began to catch on to that to get their products to sell
• Helped turn things into something consumers would desire to have. they made it something you want to have by how it looked.
• All people like gangsters, preachers, and others could become famous through pictures if they could take a good picture, people began to want to know about them.
• Babe Ruth was the first sports star to have his picture used as a comaidity to sell things, sports stars were begining to come out through photography.
• Pictures began to relate you to that celebrity that the picture was of
• Daily News made a picture of Rudoplh Valentiono in heavan instead of him and his death, many people went to his funeral it became a frenzy for the tabliods after his death.
• Photography allows us to see things that we couldnt see just looking at it , it expands our five senses to see it