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Topic: Explain this
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Tue 11/27/07 10:39 PM
Hmm be nice in critquing my work im generally not good at puting my thoughts on papaer but here it goes
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Andy Warhol: assembly line producer, or genius?

Andy Warhol to some took advantage of the true meaning of art. He spent little time making art and “mass produced” his art at times. Others say his work was incredible and changed the production industry by showing that some of the best work is done naturally. Sometimes we have to take our time in developing what one calls “art”. The word “art” gets thrown around, we take it for granted. Art is a good way to express ourselves; do we not have patience to produce an example of our character that one will see years later? I believe true art takes only time, not the ability to film a “movie”.
The Mona Lisa was started around 1502, believed to be finished shortly after 1519. 17 years for Leonardo Da Vinci to create such a piece of art work. Andy Warhol took 15 minutes to produce some of his shorter movies. One of his longer movies “sleep” involved a man sleeping for 6 ½ hours. We define this as art work? Is this ingenious? Or is this merely a way to capitalize off of the American society?
The definition of the word Art as described in The Free Dictionary is: High quality of conception or execution, as found in works of beauty; aesthetic value. Realize that modern society today is not concerned in how long a piece take but how many pieces of work can be accomplished in a given time. We have assembly lines: to increase the production of auto-mobiles, E-Mail: to save time sending a letter through the postal system, quotas: to make sure a specific sales goal is met. I have not seen the art work in building as I have seen in pictures from the classical age, what has happened? Are we more concerned about time equaling money rather than the quality of work to produce satisfying results?
As well we have “Fast Food” chains. Are we getting a good quality meal? Have we as American society forgot about the quality “sit-down and eat as a family” meal? This is all true, now because times are changing, should art work? I don’t believe I should applaud when someone as Andy Warhol becomes a victim to the typical actions that we now see daily. Andy Warhol got most of his credit because he was one of the first to focus on quantity over quality.

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