skills, and it helped him get other such jobs, for example illustrating adds for Harper's Bazaar and vogue. He became one of the most wanted illustrators of women's accessories in New York and was awarded the Art Directors' Club Medal for his designs of newspaper advertisements.Much of his future material can be placed in the category of such common, everyday objects, that were focused on in these early times. Nearly all of Warhol's works relate in one way or another to the commercially mass-produced machine product.Although Warhol did receive recognition for much of his commercial illustrations during those times, he was constantly pursuing another career, as a serious artist. Unfortunately, Warhol was not so successful at first in obtaining this goal. His delicate ink drawings of shoes and cupids, among various others, had no place in a decade dominated by such heroic artists as William de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. But then he began working on a process called silk-screening. A large photographic image is transferred to a silk screen, placed on a canvas and inked from the back. It was this technique that enabled him to produce a series of mass media images beginning in 1962. This series is generally regarded as a comment on the banality and harshness of American culture while celebrating its most recognisable icons. This silk-screening technique looks like printing with a bold graphic style that can either have many colours or be black and white. It allowed him to use images from popular culture, advertising, the news, publicity prints etc. On occasions, the same image was doubled dozens, even hundreds of times.Warhol and Pop ArtPop Art emerged in the US in the early 1960's, at first completely unacknowledged.During it's beginning, Pop Art was often seen as an insult to the roles of such artists as Pollock and de Kooning, who were leading a revival of Abstract expressionism. By the early 60's, Warhol became more and more determi...
