Andy Warhol is an American artist who was one of the main figures in the visual art movement known as pop art. Andy had a successful career as a commercial illustrator but later found his way into different forms of art. He's been known for hand drawn work, paintings, photography, screen printing and sculpture.
Andy's screen printing really shows his past career as an illustrator, the illustration style really shows within his prints. A well known print of his which he created in 1962 was the Marilyn Monroe piece, this work really has the illustration feel, his use of vivid colours really makes it stands out and it's so well done it almost looks like it's been created digitally.
Coming from a digital art background myself, I really am drawn to his work, the illustrated style and the great use of colours is really refreshing.
These are some of the early attempts at screen prints by Andy when he was getting to know the process. He used his own drawings as the basis to create the prints.
Chuck Close (Charles Thomas Close)
Chuck Close is an American painter and photographer who found fame through photorealist work. Chuck is also famous for producing massive-scale portraits however he has spent a lot of time through-out his career as a print maker. The majority of his prints were published by Pace Editions, New York.
Title: Emma - Year: 2002
Title: Lucas - Year 1986
These are two of Close's prints, I particularly love the effect of the first one. Again I think this one stands out to me as it almost looks like it's been done digitally and that's my area of expertise. I also like the almost geometric look to the piece, the shapes really add an extra dimension to the work and this is kind of on the lines of what I tried to do with my screen prints.
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