Anna and Andy Warhol Writing Assignment

Andy Warhol and Ana Mendieta, both stand out as one of the most influential artists in their era. Andy Warhol was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in pop art. Ana Mendieta was Cuban America who was very successful in her art, sculptor, paintings, and best known for "Earth Body" art work. Both having iconic piece of art work and getting art ideas getting influences by all the event that happen in their life. Have going through their fame and success, both had to overcome plenty of advertises. Not being just known as iconic artists, they are also known as being inspirational artists as well.



Ana Mendieta art was heavily inspired by domestic violence (rape) and nature. At young age, Ana was refugee escaping her country Cuba. Her silhouettes and her taking her pictures in nature type of scenes. The scary part, using her blood in her arts to represents domestic violence among women. She would use organic materials, such as blood, feathers, rocks, fire and flowers to show cycles of women rights, life and death, and rebirth. Her work today has been one of the most impactful. Mendieta was a key figure in the Body art movement that emerged from the Performance art movement. Her sustained use of the body's simplified and often nude form to depict both presence and its opposite, absence is an essential component to her work whether denoting the human or the ethereal.

Mendieta is recognized as an important contributor to Land art, a movement in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked, taking the possibilities of art outside gallery confines She would show her work through photography, performances, and film. One of her famous art masterpieces is her "body tracks" art. All her sweat in her photos are represented as blood, and that how she symbolizes rape in her art. On Sept 8, 1985, Sadly Ana Mendieta died horribly from a fall from her apartment on the 34th floor apartment. All her art continue to be created a impact and icon as her legacy lives on.

Andy Warhol, one of the most recognized and iconic pop artist in 1900s, utilized his talents and created it into something special. In Andy Warhol early life, he has came across a lot of adversity growing up. Being Autistic child, mourning the death of his mom. Growing up, was very successful with arts. He went to Carnegie Mellon School, therefore his creativity has got it recognized. A graduate of the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1949, he moved to New York City and gained success as a commercial artist. He got his first break in August 1949, when Glamour Magazine wanted him to illustrate a feature entitled “Success is a Job in New York. Warhol pioneered the development of the process whereby an enlarged photographic image is transferred to a silk screen that is then placed on a canvas and inked from the back. Each Warhol silkscreen used this technique that enabled him to produce the series of mass-media images – repetitive, yet with slight variations – that he began in 1962. For instance, one of most famous art on canvas was Marilyn Monroe.  He would subsequently work freehand, without a pencil, rendering a painterly result. In order to develop his own niche in painting, his friends suggested he paint the things he loved the most. The result was the iconic Campbell’s Soup Cans, 1962. Warhol said of Campbell’s Soup “I used to drink it. I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.” Andy Warhol was realist and expressed all his concerns with realism of his arts. On Feb 22, 1987 was final day Andy took his breath. Andy has suffered from Arrhythmia, a gallbladder infection. During surgery, the doctor made a mistake and accidentally killed him. But what made Andy Warhol a inspirational icon is he way he goes about situations and adversities in his life. After being declined for his art from professors, to getting shot and making it alive is what makes him truly special.

Both Ana and Andy invented themselves through their skills, blessed talents and adversities. Both expressing their emotions in their they creations, you feel how they expressed them through their art. These two were not driven by fame, or the money. They created diversity and being social activist in their use of art. Ana using domestic violence and Andy using realism, both used their art to mean much more.