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rt to me is a creative process expressing a vision with passion and skill in a variety of mediums.

As the editor-in-chief of SPLASH Magazine, I decided to make myself the muse in this issue. Andrew Warhola (Andy Warhol), known as the leading figure in Pop Art, expressed his artistic abilities through print making, panting, graphics design, photography, and cinema. His early advertisement work began with illustrations for Lord & Taylor, Campbell Soup, and many wellknown magazines such as Time, Esquire, Vogue, following up with his own magazine, Interview. Warhol’s personal art featured a lot of celebrities and personalities of his generation. Along side Warhol in Pop Art was Roy Lichtenstein in advertisements and comic strips. His work was identified with bright, graphic images based on popular culture.

It wasn’t until the process of research and putting this issue together that I realized Warhol’s accomplishments were in similarity with my current road of aspirations and desires. Everyone starts off with pencil and paper till they discover more mediums.

Some smooth to work with and others difficult and eventually an artist found his/her niche. I went through the list of ways to express myself and landed in photography infused with fashion.

Throughout this magazine I displayed some of my personal work highly influenced with Warhol’s art. I displayed it through planning and shooting of photoshoots with loud colors & prints, post-production editing, and painting digitally. Aspiring someday, to be well-renowned as Warhol mixing medias.

But this magazine wouldn’t have been complete without the amazing staff of contributing writers. ENJOY.

Editor-In-Chief

“IN AMERICA

THE BIGGEST IS THE BEST.”

- ROY LICHTENSTEIN

editor/creative director/graphic designer/photographer REVATI DOSHI

contributing staff ERIN COULTER KEVIN COULTER CLIFF PLUMMER EMMANUEL MEJIA JOSE MALTEZ CARLY PEARLMAN

analysing andy #1

The first piece of Art is “The World Fascinates Me,” by Andy Warhol. This art print is a portrait of Andy Warhol taken on a photo booth in 1963. The artist uses paper similar to the one used on postcards or greeting cards. “The World Fascinates Me” can be found in different sizes in store or online throughout many different Art Print Shops.

The product is an Art Print, which means it is higher quality than a typical poster. The medium the artist uses is screen print or silkscreen, which is a printing technique particularly suited for flat or relatively flat surfaces. This medium is capable of creates mass-produced images by mechanically inking a photo overlaid on a large canvas. The Art was created it by using thick, archival quality, acid-free paper, so the printing process guarantees a vivid and detailed reproduction.

This fine-art print shows a picture of a man with a chic side-swept hair cut wearing a pair of leopard-rimmed Ray Ban sunglasses. His right hand is above his head in what appears to be post-fixing of his hair. He is wearing a dark black blazer and a light button down shirt underneath. The color scheme of this print is a scale of red-black. In front of this man is the phrase “the world fascinates me” in all lowercase white letters in Arial font. In the right bottom corner of the print is Andy Warhol’s signature in cursive, white font.

A black, pixelated, and continuous line that is thin for its total length is used by the artist to separate the colors, textures, and shapes that distinguish the man’s features in this print. A variety of shades of black and gray allow for the differentiation of the man’s hair color from his sunglasses to his blazer. Thick, straight white lines make up the font of the bold expression in the lower center of the print, with the text aligned to the right. Thick, continuous white lines make up the curved signature in the bottom right corner of the print. The red background allows for a bright contrast to the black and white focal points of the man’s structure and shadow as well as the text.

The large, washed-out image of the man wearing sunglasses brushing his side-swept hair is evenly matched with the large, bold bright white phrase that allows us to see a contrast of color with a comparison of expression of the two main elements of this print. The scale of the man is smaller than the actual size of a human, yet it is proportionate to a man’s size within the print. There is unity between the figure and the font as the rhythm of the colors and texture exhibits valiant yet relaxed connotations simultaneously. The repetition of pixelated colors of red and black in contrast to the blunt, white, thick font gives this print a focal point in the phrase along with a focal point of the man in the background. All in all, there is great balance in this print from a variation in texture, rhythm, and color shades.

This art print is a portrait of Andy Warhol taken on a photo booth in 1963. This was an era for Warhol when he wanted to make a name for himself in a new style of art known as “Pop Art.” This style began in England in the mid-1950s and consisted of realistic renditions of popular, everyday items. In July of 1962, Warhol discovered the process of silk screening, a technique which uses a specially prepared section of silk as stencil, allowing one silk-screen to create similar patterns multiple times. He utilized this technique to portray into a way to live the everyday.

Warhol was one of the most influential artists of the sixties, challenging the traditional boundaries between art and life, art and business, and different media. He collected, documented, reproduced, experimented, and collaborated with the people, places, and things around him. His enthusiasm for life was rivaled by his love of the methods of capturing it. Not only did he love the content inside his work, but he also loved the framing device – the silkscreen – as well. His greatest innovation was that he saw no limits to his practice.

The 1960s was the era of the movie star, the celebrity, and consumerism. Warhol looked at life around him and portrayed it on his canvases and in his films. It was during the 1960s that Warhol began paintings of iconic American objects such as dollar bills, mushroom clouds, electric chairs, celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Coca-Cola bottles, Campbell’s soup cans, and newspaper headlines or photographs of police dogs attacking civil rights protestors. New York’s Museum of Modern Art hosted a pop art meeting in which artists like Warhol were attacked for “capitulating” to consumerism. Critics were scandalized by Warhol’s open embrace to market culture. All in all, Andy Warhol was a leading figure in the visual art movement of pop art during the 20th century.

Andy Warhol was an artist who made a lot quotation, and he was best remembered for his declaration that everyone would have fifteen minutes of fame, artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987) cultivated celebrity status and achieved a level of notoriety normally reserved for Hollywood stars. Born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the artist began studies there at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1945.

In 1949, Warhol moved to New York where he established himself as a successful commercial designer working for leading fashion houses. Taking his inspiration from commercial art and popular culture, Warhol produced a series of works that appropriated imagery from advertisements and tabloids, eliminating personal references and any trace of the artist's hand. His mechanically produced works were in stark contrast to the highly personal statements of the Abstract Expressionist A 1962 exhibition that featured his "Campbell's Soup Cans" and "Coca-Cola Bottles" brought Warhol instantaneous celebrity status and he was proclaimed the leader of the Pop Art movement. In 1963 Warhol established his New York studio which he called "The Factory" and increasingly relied on assistants to produce his work. In 1965 the artist shifted his focus to film and performance art. He produced numerous multi-media events he labeled "The Exploding Plastic Inevitable."

The Andy Warhol Museum opened in the artist's hometown of Pittsburgh in 1994.

Andy Warhol’s intention was to make a point of how the world fascinates me and he communicates the object well with the saying in his art. The object communicates it to a degree in which he is trying to get a point across that everything the world has done is just really fascinating. He is an artist from the 1960s from the Pop Art, American realism. Pop Art left behind traditional artistic media such as this fine-art print. The artist utilizes bold color to make a bold statement about the captivating world. The artist successfully uses the fine-art medium to communicate his message.

The fine-art print makes me feel that in the time of this fine-art was done; he was having a great time living when this was done and seems like the guy in the print was shocked in what he was seeing. I also feel like maybe this guy in the print is going through a rough time and something bad just happened in his life because the background is all red which could mean something bad. I really enjoyed looking at Warhol’s pieces because not only were they nice to the eye, but there was deeper meaning behind it. This relates to everyone in the world because it is very subjective meaning so many people may interpret this differently and this can relate to different people. People may look at this different then I do. - Continued >>

Cont.’d >> One aspect of his artwork that I really liked is the repetition.

For me, if I look at something over and over and over again, the first few times I’d get something different out of it but after a while, I’d just get tired of looking at it. In this case, when these images are repeated and they all look exactly the same, it gives it more meaning. It’s like I’m forced to look at it over and over again because there are just so many of the same images, but it feels like he’s trying to tell you something by doing so. The repetition almost feels like a scream that can’t really be heard unless we’re actually analyzing the art work.

For example, in the last work of the exhibit, The Detail of the Last Supper, where the face of Jesus is repeated tons of times, Warhol is screaming out to us that he is actually Catholic. The church was a part of his everyday life and I think that is what he was trying to show by repeating the image, but everyone didn’t find out for sure that he was religious until his death. ~

analysing andy #2

Andy Warhol also created “Love affair,” which is a self-portrait of him; this shot was taken in a photo booth in 1963. This art print is similar to “The World Fascinates me,” it was made of a high quality paper, and it can be found in store or online throughout many different photo-shops.

The process and techniques are same as “The World Fascinates Me,” the only differences are the names of the titles. This product is an Art Print, which means it is higher quality than a typical poster. The medium the artist uses is screen print or silkscreen, which is a printing technique particularly suited for flat or relatively flat surfaces. This medium is capable of creates mass-produced images by mechanically inking a photo overlaid on a large canvas. The Art was created it by using thick, archival quality, acid-free paper, so the printing process guarantees a vivid and detailed reproduction.However, each art print projects a different message to the viewer.

This fine-art print shows a man’s face with side-swept hair wearing a pair of Ray Ban sunglasses. The color scheme consists of black-purple shades giving the print a washed-out appearance. In front of the man’s face below his nose is the phrase “i wonder if it’s possible to have a love affair that lasts forever” in all lowercase white letters in Arial font. In the right bottom corner of the print is Andy Warhol’s signature in cursive, white font.

A black, pixelated, and continuous line that is thin for its total length is used by the artist to separate the colors, textures, and shapes that distinguish the man’s features in this print. A variety of shades of purple and black allow for the differentiation of the man’s hair from his face from his sunglasses. Thick, straight white lines make up the font of the bold expression in the lower center of the print, with the text aligned to the right. Thick, continuous white lines make up the curved signature in the bottom right corner of the print. The purple background allows for a bright contrast to the black and white focal points of the man’s facial structure as well as the text.

The large, washed-out image of the man wearing sunglasses with side-swept hair is evenly matched with the large, bold bright white phrase that allows us to see a contrast of color with a comparison of expression of the two main elements of this print. The scale of the man is smaller than the actual size of a human, yet it is proportionate to a man’s size within the print. The figure and the font create a sharp and vivid rhythm of colors and texture that make an elegant look with a vivid and sharp appearance. The repetition of pixelated colors of purple and black in contrast to the blunt, white, thick font gives this print a focal point in the phrase along with a focal point of the man in the background. All in all, there is great balance in this print from a variation in texture, rhythm, and color shades.

The fine art print by Warhol was created in 1963, the same year and time period as his other piece, “The World Fascinates Me.” Nonetheless, there was no significant change from the time period of the first work to the second work. Again, Warhol was one of the most influential artists of the sixties, challenging the traditional boundaries between art and life, art and business, and different media. He collected, documented, reproduced, experimented, and collaborated with the people, places, and things around him. His enthusiasm for life was rivaled by his love of the methods of capturing it.

Andy Warhol profoundly inspired the world through his extraordinary artistic vision and innovation, as well as astute insights that have resonated far beyond his time. His immortal quote "I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever" accompanies this candid shot from a strip of photo booth portraits taken in 1963. Warhol (1923 – 1987) founded the Pop Art movement and innovated silk-screening, a technique which transferred a large photograph to a mechanically inked canvas, creating mass-produced images. He was best known for his multiple images of Campbell’s soup cans, Coke bottles and celebrities.

Andy Warhol has used techniques sensitively in relation to the above by showing how he feels with all of his art that he has done. This art makes me feel like the guy in the print is thinking if he will ever find love. I feel like he is trying to get his point across by having the model face a certain way and have the sayings he has in his prints go with the print. It relates to the world as a whole by Andy’s sayings are all helping with the world and very inspirational.

In Andy Warhol’s painting, “The World Fascinates Me” it is a painting of him in black and red. There are also shades of gray so give the painting depth. In this painting he has his hand on his head pushing his hair to the side while wearing sunglasses. At the bottom of the painting it reads, “the world fascinates me.” An interesting thing is that he is looking away, almost like he is looking off in space. This fits the description about the world and his fascination. It looks as though he is looking and may be in deep thought about the world. It gives the illusion that he is looking all around him in fascination. It is like he is taking a step back and just looking at the world.

In Andy Warhol’s painting, “Love Affair” it is another painting of him in purple and black. There are shades of gray in this painting as well to give it depth. In this painting he is looking right at you with his sunglasses on. This painting also includes words at the bottom of it that read, “i wonder if it’s possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.” What I got with this was that if you love something, you should keep doing it. If you keep doing it, it could be an affair that lasts forever. His love is painting which is why he is staring at you in this painting. Since it is a painting of himself, it gives off the impression that he is looking at his own paintings. He loves painting so he keeps doing it, an affair that lasts forever.

I found these paintings to be very similar. They are both paintings of himself with a theme. They both include shades of gray to give the painting depth. They both have words at the bottom of the paintings that really get you thinking. Also, the way in which he is looking either away or at you it has meaning that goes along with the theme of each painting. There are many similarities between these two paintings. The only differences I see are the themes the paintings include and the color. The way in which these paintings were done are very similar to one another.~

analysing roy #3

Girl in Mirror often refers as The Girl in The Mirror is a 1964 porcelainenamel-on-steel pop art painting by Roy Lichtenstein that is considered to exist in between eight and ten editions. One edition of this painting was the subject of a legal dispute involving 2009 sale without consent. Another edition of this work sold at an auction at Christies (New York, Rockefeller Plaza) for $4,898,500 on November 10, 2010.

Girl in Mirror uses Ben-Day dots, which is a printing process that combines two or more different small, colored dots to create a third color. The painting was inspired by the hard reflective finish of signs in the New York City Subway system and, in turn, they inspired his subsequent ceramic head works.

Enamel facilitated a more mechanical appearance than even his paintings while remaining in two dimensions. After 1963, Lichtenstein's comics-based women looked hard, crisp, brittle, and uniformly modish in appearance, as if they all came out of the same pot of makeup. This particular example is one of several that is cropped so closely that the hair flows beyond the edges of the canvas.

This porcelain-enamel-on-steel pop art painting shows a comic-inspired blonde woman facing opposite of the viewer looking into a mirror. Her face is shown smiling towards the viewer within the mirror. The background is a solid, red color. The hand-held mirror is oval shaped with a black handle. The colors are very bold and bright with the woman’s skin having a pixelated appearance. To the bottom right of the woman’s face in the mirror are vague black and white curved lines.

A thick, black continuous line is used by the artist to separate the colors, shapes, and textures that distinguish the woman’s features in this print. Her hair is a mustard-yellow, solid color that we can see is shoulder-length from the back of her head. In the mirror, we can see she has a side-swept bang and bright red smiling lips. Her skin is the only pixelated portion of the painting, creating a dot-to-dot effect. The thick black differentiated lines forming her features along with the bright contrasting colors of red and yellow create a comic-inspired appearance.

The happy, pretty woman depicted by Roy Lichtenstein in this painting is brimming with bright, contrasting colors and texture creating a valiant expression.

The scale of the woman is proportionate to an actual woman’s size in real life, making this piece relatable to the viewer. The repetition of thick lines in contrast to the pixelated portion of the woman’s skin give this painting a focal point in the mirror of her smiling face. There is unity throughout the piece, with the dominant bright red and yellow colors complimenting each other. There is balance among the various aspects that make up this two-dimensional character. All in all, this artist successfully portrayed a comic-inspired ideal, pretty, woman from the 1960s through the use of rich color, texture, depth, and consistency.

Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York in 1923. He grew up under no specific artistic influence, though at fourteen he began to study painting at the Parson's School of Design, from 1940 to 1943 at the Art Students' League, and from 1946 to 1949 at Ohio State University.

Together with Andy Warhol, Lichtenstein is considered a harbinger of the Pop Art movement. Lichtenstein's first experiments with popular images date to 1956, when abstract expressionism was the dominant art movement. Though Lichtenstein had experimented with abstract expressionism, he came to prominence with a painting of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. Lichtenstein allegedly painted it for his children who had provoked him by saying that he could not paint as well as the images in the comic books.

Lichtenstein worked to a great extent with stencils, producing rows of oversized dots intended to make his paintings or prints look like mass-produced commercial products. He wanted his paintings to look machine-made, with no brushstrokes seen. Lichtenstein produced several prints from various techniques -including lithographs, screenprints, etchings and woodcuts- and would often combine these techniques into one print.

His imagery typically contained ironic, humorous, and witty content. Lichtenstein once said: "I'd rather use the word 'dealing with' than 'parody.' I am sure there are certain aspects of irony, but I get really involved in making the paintings when I am working on them, and I think just to make parodies or to be ironic about something in the past is much too much of a joke for that to carry your work as a work of art.

Mirror Paintings and Reflections. For several decades, Lichtenstein reflected on these themes. Girl in the Mirror (1964), like Girl at Window which is also presented but was painted one year earlier, is an example of his works in which he showed the ideal type of woman as Hollywood propagated it in the 1960s, happy and smiling creatures in a male dominated world. The mirror underlines the importance and appearance of the glamour girl. The enamel allowed him to achieve a mechanical perfection and to underline the two-dimensional character of the work.

At the exhibition, the group of Mirrors in the stricter sense is introduced by Magnifying Glass, a work from 1963. In this series, the mirrors are more abstract and composed by a series of image-codes. The observer just gets enough information to recognize the mirror as an object. Lichtenstein plays with perception and refers to traditional forms of Occidental painting which used motifs reflected by mirrors in order to achieve a spatial depth and to break out of the space of the picture.

He started the Mirror Paintings series in 1969. It is about the essence of reality and illusion. Inspired by brochures and ads by several glass and mirror manufacturers in his neighborhood, Lichtenstein began to study the representation of mirrors which, on the cheap brochures, had been reduced to mere mirror symbols, to almost abstract paintings.

In earlier paintings, drawings and enameled works, Lichtenstein had experimented with reflections. In 1969, he began to explore them in detail. In analogy to his first Pop Art pictures which had been reproductions of comic strip images, his Mirror Paintings were based on catalogues, ads and pictures from the yellow pages. Lichtenstein was not interested in the sharp reflection of reality in a mirror, but with the reflection which seems to lift of the materiality of the reflected objects.

One of the artists we focused on was Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol is an artist in the 20th century that did his work in pop art. His works included areas of pop art such as expression, culture and advertisement. His types of work include paintings, photography, film, sculpture and music. He was a very influential artist in the 20th century which is why there is even a film about him. Even up to the point right before he died he was working on computer art and helping inventing that to spread that to the world as well.

The other artist we focusing on is Roy Lichtenstein. Roy Lichtenstein is an artist in the 20th century as well that also did his work in pop art. His works mainly included only two types in advertising as well as comic book style. - Continued >>

Cont.’d>> He was a very humorous man which is why he is most known for his comic book style artwork. Since most of his work was done just for advertising and comic books, he has been labeled as an industrial artist meaning his work is mostly done for industries and businesses.

After learning a little about both artists, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, along with looking at some of their artwork there are some similarities and differences. For the most part, I would say their pretty similar in what they represent. They are both 20th century artists in which their art is placed in the category of pop art. They both enjoyed bringing art to people and the world. As far as their artwork goes, that is where they mostly differ. They do share some artwork in that they both did some work in advertising but for the most part they differed. Andy Warhol was mostly creating artwork for himself because he loved it and created pieces that got a lot of people talking about them and created discussion. Roy Lichtenstein did mostly industry art. He was mostly in the business of creating comic book strips to bring people laughter to appreciate art. Those are ways in which they are similar and different.~

all in all...

Andy Warhol’s “The World Fascinates Me” represents one of his many fine art prints in which he transferred images onto paper or canvas using a silkscreen process. Warhol’s innovation was “to bring commercial art to fine art” and “to take printing techniques into painting.” This particular artwork gives the illusion that he is looking all around him in fascination. His other piece, “Love Affair,” was another self-portrait of himself that was similar to the first in design and technique. His love is painting which is why he is staring at you in this painting. In conclusion, Warhol was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art throughout the 20th century. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s.

Roy Lichtenstein’s “Girl in Mirror” was one of many of his paintings inspired by advertisements and comic strips. The bright, graphic image parodied popular culture in the 20th century.

His paintings in the 1960s drew heavily on familiar characters found in comic books and advertising, as this particular painting represents a young, happy blonde woman looking into a mirror of Hollywood’s essence on beauty. All in all, these two pop art styles received controversy for their unique art styles. Their productions of art in bold and forceful manners carried on that artistic style to common life style of the masses. These two artists were leading figures in the visual art movement of pop art in the 20th century. ~

dynamic duo

INSIDE THE

What came first, friendship or collaboration?

Revati Doshi: From what I recall, I think it was friendly acquaintances, collaboration, and then friendship! She believed in my madness.

Carly Pearlman: I think first was collaboration, but very shortly after was friendship. I saw her closet and knew we’d be fast friends!

Carly, How did you originally meet and come to working with Rev? CP: I met Rev in 7th grade and reconnected while doing a project on the 1920’s in our history class and from there we continued to do projects for school.

Rev, When did you first realize the potential of Carly as your muse and close friend?

RD: When talked about what we admired, fashion & beauty. Obsessing over the latest gowns on the runway. I quickly correlated the models in the advertisements and showed her that we could totally recreate it! She quickly filled the model mold. We have similiar moral views and respect each others decisions.

What makes you two so compatible? Any common interests?

RD: I think since our eyes are familiar with the latest looks in similar magazine reads, we can discuss and understand where ideas are being pulled from to create our own. We love clothes, makeup, and cupcakes.

CP: We both have an eye for what looks good and creatively we bounce off one another.

Our common interests are fashion, beauty, and sweets!

Do you ever disagree with one another?

RD: We have our own styles so we might see the one thing in a different way but discussing it out we soon blend into what we both want.

CP: Sometimes we see a different way of styling a shoot or a different shot to take, but we agree mostly on the theme and point of view. We only disagree to improve a shot though!

Carly, where do you think Rev's strong points are?

CP: I think Rev is very patient and has an awe inspiring knack for ideas. She can think, deliberate, and create within an hour.

Rev, what about Carly's strong points?

RD: Carly definitely had a passion for reading and writing for as long as I’ve known her.

Writing comes second nature to her just as photography does for me. She’s intelligent and hardworking.

You two are clearly fashion & magazine obsessed, top 3 designers/magazines?

RD: Alexander McQeen, Rachel Roy, and Balmain. V Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, and Glamour.

CP: Balmain, Zac Posen, and Atelier Versace. Glamour, Elle, and Cosmopolitan.

Growing up we all have people we look up to, role models, any tips or quotes that have gotten you thus far?

RD: Growing up I’d constantly be told, “You don’t need to follow others, you make your own style” by my mother. I’ve created opportunities for myself out of nowhere. Always accepting criticism to only improve and constantly striving for better.

CP: I believe you have to “Create your own happiness” key word being create. As long as I’m creating and using my imagination I feel like I’m accomplishing something bigger and better.

dynamic duo

popartography

Andy Warhol and fashion are synonymous with one another, although Warhol’s is known for his infamous paintings, he has also put his stamp on fashion from the 60’s to today. Beauty house NARS recently put out a collection of pop-art inspired pieces, lip glosses in soup cans and eyeshadows mimed from Warhol’s infamous paintings Flowers and Self-Portrait. NARS collection put the idea of pop art back in the forefront of the fashion industry’s mind and stream-lined pieces in an array of shockingly beautiful colors emerged once again. Highlighter pinks, oranges, or yellows can be mixed with mod black and white to create a full-circle Warhol look. Matte blues, greens, and grays can also be worn mixed with Edie Sedgwick’s classic black and white striped shirts, or to make it more new-wave a black and white striped wide leg trouser. To channel a Warhol inspired look a pop of color is always key, but most importantly an artistic attitude will make anyone Warhol worthy.

-Carly Pearlman

POLLOCK PAINTINGS Students in Adjunct Instructor Richard Monteleone’s Art Appreciation Class created Jackson Pollock-inspired paintings that have been auctioned to raise money for the Ken Drake Memorial Scholarship for art students at Atlantic Cape.

- Chelsea Pizzi

art is what you can get away with.