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Andy Warhol Facts

·         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”

Photoshop

This picture took a lot of steps and was a very long process. The first thing I did was work on the subject, which is my dog Toby and the tennis ball. To do this, I began by creating a duplicate background layer, then outlined the subject and selected the inverse. After selecting the inverse, I deleted it, so I ended up with just Toby and the tennis ball. Now that I have the subject isolated, I created 10 more layers by selecting the layer on the layer menu and pressing ctrl-J ten times. So now that I have 11 layers of the subject I am going to use the threshold tool. Starting with the top-most layer, I will use the threshold tool and set it to the lowest number. After setting it there I am going to pick the darkest hue of the color I wanted to use which was a dark navy for me. After, I deleted all of the white, and since I set the threshold at a low number, I am left with a little bit of black and since I have the darkest layer chosen I am going to select the black and change it to that color. I did this by holding ctrl and selecting the thumbnail of that layer, then pressing control backspace. So at this point I am left with a little dark part of the subject and that is it, for the next nine layers. As I went along I will be picking a lighter color to make the selected dark part and will be choosing an increasing number for the threshold. By the last layer, the color selected is the lightest one and is the most of the subject. So by this point by viewing all layers, Toby and the tennis ball are apparent and differing degrees layers of color, like mine is.

            To edit the background, I simply used the stamp filter, just with different colors. To do this I choose the two colors, yellow and orange, because I thought it went nice with the blue. After I just applied the stamp filter and that was it. I didn't end up changing the smoothness or adding any other filters because I wanted the background to be simple.  I liked how my picture came out and am happy with the result, though it took many steps to complete.

Toby.

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