Lilly Gregory Museum Visit

Lillian Gregory

PHO 236

Museum Trip

12/12/2017

      I was lucky enough to go to the Grand Rapids Art Museum when the
Andy Warhol exhibit was showing.

They had his soup cans, pop bottles, and the brightly colored Marilyn Monroe.
My favorite piece that was showing, was his screen print of the pop bottles.

The tall frame was filled with old fashioned glass Coca Cola  bottles. Although
all of the bottle shapes were the same,

they varied in shades of a minty green to no color inside of the black outline at all.
They were printed in rows and columns, with virtually no depth besides

the dark outline that suggests shadows in the bottles.

   He created this piece using screen printing, a technique that uses a mesh screen
that ink is scraped through onto a canvas. And even though screen

printing usually creates a very even spread of ink, Warhol still managed to keep the
painted quality of the piece because some bottles have been printed with less ink than

others. The green that some of the bottles have also does not always line up with the
line work, something that I believe is a common thing in the genre of Pop art that has

risen because of Warhol.

   My interpretation of the pop bottles is about the ordinary. Most people would look
\at a pop bottle and see almost anything about it besides the fact that it could be art.

It’s a very ordinary thing that was made into something interesting to look at and take
meaning from. You could take a variety of meanings from it. An environmentalist might look

at it and think of recycling to save the earth, while a poor man might look at it and think
of the 10 cents that each bottle represents. I think the message that I get out of it would be,

even the ordinary can turn someone's head and make them think.

    I used the bright colors that I saw in Warhol’s other works, plus the repeating of normal
everyday objects, in my picture.

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