Benton and DiYanni assert that "as consumerism increasingly preoccupied american life, artists and intellectuals turned thier attention to the cycle of production, consumption, and waste that defined experience......... How does the art work of the american pop artist Andy Warhol demonstrate this



anyone explain this madness assignment that is due tomarrow? What do you think me teacher wants

I don't know.

your teacher wants you to have a f*cking anuerism.....

lol i thought maybe i was not getting the question... i know who andy warhol is but...

reading that almost threw me into a seizure...

discuss the progression of warhol's art during his career and how it reflects the public attitude towards consumption of the time...

OMG...what? I'm lost...I love that you put "me teacher"...and the pic is so cute becuase it looks like you're confused.

LMFAO!!! YES!!! YOUR THE MAN!!!! MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY!!!! MAN HUG!!!!!

Now am i taking a postive side to it or negative side... i think Andy Warhol is a nut case but i can write the other side.,, which side am i writing on?

It was actually a typo and i seen my typo but just laughed and kept it =-)... i dont remember what i was doing in my pictures but i do lok confused

::blank Stare::

don't fret..just give your rendiditon of how Warhol's paintings demonstates America's obsessions with consumerism. It's like the lifecycle of our lives...productions, consumption and waste..just ramble off some crap about how warhol depicts such consumerism in an absract way into his art..you'll get at least a B+ good luck, doll...

well it is up to you. i think it is just a way to get the students to think about the context of the artist's work and to express an opinion on what may have motivated him. this is a way actually to motivate the students of the class to think about what was driving warhol the artist.

the odd way in which the question was posed may be either 1) the weird personality of the teacher or 2) also a way to motivate the student to think...

good question...

If Warhol were to try that today, Campbe$$ Soup would sye him for 57349823764000000.oo for patent infringement and copyright theft and defamation and slander and...no wut i meen?

Wow, that just made me feel stupid.


I will just smile and nod

see....the tomato soup can painting depicted convenience at a price.

tomatoes are hard to screw up in a soup and cheap and plentiful, so the cost of marketing it had a tremendous upside that flew over most peoples heads at 39,000'

i guess you had to be there.

i vaguely remember anything

to me andy warhol was famous for mass producing his work.. "sleep" took no creative thought granted he satisfied the people. I believe his motives was on the $$$$$$. The Mona Lisa Took 17 years to finish, Andy Warhol is just another individual fallen into the "time is money" rather than producing true art work. my thoughts anyway

I think it was 2 but did a crappy job of making us think you know? Shes a newer teacher as well

that works

Andy Warhol was a genius!!!

His contempt for the 'norm' and the accepted methodologies, of art at the time; based in his defiance of using and utilising different mediums, to portray the American lust for consumerism, was brilliant, and a perfect form of artistic expression.


The aforementioned Campbell's soup can, his piece, that he created using different mineral based paints, and urine....utter defiance and completely contemptible! Beer, and many other unusual mediums and items, he utilised in his art, yet were being consumed at great speeds in his time, by the American society.

And each piece was sold faster than he could produce them, art collected for the sake of WHO created it, a consumer market, prostituting the true masters that came before, with little recognition of the sheer genius of the works.

Of course he was defiant!