Sentences with phrase «brillo pads work»

I would use fine / medium grit sandpaper or very fine steel wool (SOS or Brillo Pads work well) over it to remove the rust, clean the surface well, then use chalk paint over it.

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Among Warhol's defining works as a Pop artist were the plywood sculptures he painted to resemble the cardboard packaging for Brillo soap pads.

The 1960's proved to be the decade that produced work of prime significance in Warhol's career, with brand name American products, such as Campbell's Soup Cans, 1962, and Brillo Box (Soap Pads), 1964, which solidified Warhol's place as one of the pioneering figures of emerging Pop art.

Warhol drew widely from popular culture and everyday subject matter, creating works like his 32 Campbell's Soup Cans (1962), his Brillo pad box sculptures, and portraits of Marilyn Monroe, using the medium of silk - screen printmaking to achieve his characteristic hard edges and flat areas of colour.

As famous for his quips as for his art — he variously mused that «art is what you can get away with» and «everyone will be famous for 15 minutes» — Warhol drew widely from popular culture and everyday subject matter, creating works like his 32 Campbell's Soup Cans (1962), Brillo pad box sculptures, and portraits of Marilyn Monroe, using the medium of silk - screen printmaking to achieve his characteristic hard edges and flat areas of color.

The intertextual reference to Andy Warhol's Brillo Pad exemplifies a use of irony and humour in their work.

His Pop incarnations of flowers, pencils, hamburgers and Brillo pad boxes, are joined by portraits of Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Paul Anka, Ingrid Bergman, Jane Fonda, as well as examples of his work in film and his oxidation paintings.

The works in question are Brillo boxes, pieces inspired by the real cardboard packaging of Brillo soap pads from the United States.