Bio:
Born: October 27, 1923
Died: 29 September 1997
Education: Parsons School of Design, Timothy Dwight School, Ohio State University
Associated movements: Pop art
Art form: Painting,
Influence/ inspired: AndyWarhol, other people's paintings in comic books and advertisement magazines
Background history:
Born and raised in New York City and had a happy and uneventful middle-class childhood. He was sent to a private secondary school, were art was not included so instead he had to do the art at home. During his teenage years, he began painting and drawing on his own at home while experimenting with what kind of art that he wanted to do. After when he finished his secondary school years he then went on forwards to study further art at Ohio State University where his teacher taught him to draw self portraits properly by looking in the mirror portraits and other different types of media.
But suddenly he got drafted into war when war broke out and was sent to fight in England, France, Belgium and then finally Germany. When the war was finally over he then went back to Ohio University graduated and then pursued onwards towards his future art carrier. He then began to have exhibitions in Cleveland and then New York and through the 50s he then painted in a cubist inspired expressionist and create a new piece of topic about "money". But he had no interest in that so he then chose to do pop art and then moved back to New York in 1955 to work as a assistant professor of art. When he started to dig in deeper into the pop art world he bought lots of wacky stand out comic books to use them as to gather different sources of images to then make him to inspire on what he was going to do.
He did applied the same style as the same way comic books used to present back in the 90s and did the same style of pop art but did in his own way. Then he started to create his own type of pop art with lots of individual dots on a huge canvas. It must have took him a long time. The materials for his popart work were mainly using traditional tools such as paintbrush and colour pallet. The colours that Andy mostly uses is bright red, yellow, black, grey and some white. In this type of artwork, I think it portrays some life and nature. For example with the life part there humans who which shows while controlling the plane and shooting down the plane. It is a play around mostly with life and death and conveys on how dangerous war can be on the skies. The word " WHAAM" shows this that this is a type of exaggeration of an onomatopoeia of the enemy plane being exploded on fire while it has been shot down by the allied plane.
My own thoughts and feelings
In my opinion, I think I quite like the wacky and tacky design of the piece of comic page. It make me feels immersive if I was also involved in the dramatic picture of a plane being shot down with an exaggeration of a onomatopoeia sound effect such as like "WHAAM". The colours and the texture are bright and bold which makes it easy and eye appealing which makes me comfortable to read. It inspires me to make me to create my own popart style comic book like what Roy Lichtenstein did.
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