Ana Mendieta and Andy Warhol
work
But with
Andy Warhol who is an American
artist, director, and producer and a leading figure in the visual art movement
known as pop art. His works explore the relationships between artistic
expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s,
and span a variety of media, including painting, photography, film, and
sculpture. Both Ana and Andy are complex artist because “The art of any culture
will show a wide differential of talent. But in no other culture is the difference
between “Masterpiece” and average work so large as in the tradition of the oil
painting. In this tradition, the difference is not just a question of skill or
imagination, but also of morale.” (Page 88 of Ways of Seeing).
Ana was an activist for women
telling a story in her artwork about abuse towards women. She shows it in her self-expressive
artwork and she wanted to pierce the veils of perceived difference in many spheres
including gender, race, and geography and asked us to perceive our own
indifference to a more unsettling thing within our midst, such as prejudice and
violence. But with Andy he focuses more on
commercial art. He was the most successful and highly paid commercial
illustrator in New York even before he began to make art destined for
galleries. But “to have a thing painted and put on a canvas is not unlike
buying it and putting it in your house. If you buy a painting, you buy also the look of the thing it
represents.” (Page 83 of Ways of Seeing).
Andy was a gay man, and he
kept much of his private life a secret, occasionally referencing his sexuality
through art. This is perhaps the most evident in his drawings of male nudes
from the 1950’s and later in his film Sleep (1963), which portrays the poet
John Giorno nude. Ana work as an artist’s nomadic early life had a
profound impact on her, and much of her work addressed her desire to return to
her homeland of Cuba. These two iconic artist works have “the soul, thanks to
the cartesian system, was saved in a category apart. A painting could speak to
the soul-by way of what it referred to, but never by the way it envisaged.” (Page 87 of Ways of Seeing).
Ana liked to use blood and other organic material such as feathers,
rocks, flowers, fire, and the earth reflect Mendieta's passion for religious
ritual. She was especially inspired by the strain of Cuban Catholicism known as
Santeria. Much of her artwork materialized as a sort of rite, orchestrated to
articulate the perpetual cycles of life, death, womanhood, rebirth, and
renewal. In Andy’s career as going into
decline in 1968, after he was shot by Valerie Solana’s. Valuing his early paintings above all, they have ignored
the activities that absorbed his attention in later years - parties,
collecting, publishing, and painting commissioned portraits. Yet some have
begun to think that all these ventures make up Warhol's most important legacy
because they prefigure the diverse interests, activities, and interventions
that occupy artists today. But in the end
of the day, both artists have a tragic end to their story. But with Ana, she died
by her boyfriend throwing her out the window and killing her. Andy died by suffering gallbladder issues.
Both artists have powerful artwork that inspired upcoming artist
and activist to push the envelope and to make an impact in the art world. But
here are Ana and Andy famous quotes. With Ana "I decided that
for the images to have magic qualities I had to work directly with nature. I
had to go to the source of life, to mother earth."(Ana Mendieta quote
https://www.theartstory.org/artist/mendieta-ana/).
Andy Warhol "How can you say one style is better than another? You ought to be
able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week, or a Pop artist, or a realist,
without feeling you've given up something. I think that would be so great, to
be able to change styles. And I think that's what's going to happen, that's
going to be the whole new scene."(Andy Warhol quote https://www.theartstory.org/artist/warhol-andy/).
Word
Cited
(Ways of Seeing Page 83,87,
88)
https://www.theartstory.org/artist/warhol-andy/):
Andy Warhol
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