Plot Replication

As one of the most influential stars in art circles in the 1920s, Andy Warhol’s identity transformed among artist, designer, printer and cinematographer, as well as flag and leader in pop art. His productive works of visual arts involved in many areas still remain influential, which have crossed the transverse furrow between closed sector and trade, entering into a new era of multiple artistic designing. As a legendary artist forever remaining in art history, his art forms and art ideological concepts have been repeatedly, deeply analyzed by researchers of various countries since more than the last half century. As China comprehensively stepped into the era of commercial consumption, it seems to copy the vanity of America’s best times in the last century, commercial trade is flourishing as never before, all things become accustomed to be consumed. Business concept has been penetrated into all fields for a long time and played an important motivational role. Behind the commercial prosperity, replication has already been everywhere, secretly manipulating and combing with the rules of the contemporary world. In the meanwhile, the research also found that the core ideas and visual focus of Andy Warhol’s visual works are both "plot replicating", with plot replicating as the entry point of this topic as well as the sensitive spot of time feature, starting from the application of new media, it emphasized the discussion of the relation among the former and times and the society as well as the concept behind the expression of replication.As a mirror of America’s social life at that time, the symbolic significance that Andy Warhol’s visual works have brought reveals the current situation and existing problems in the contemporary American art circle, which has great reference value to study the development and trend of Chinese art design at present and to excavate the correlation and relation between the art and this world. Through the trimming research on Andy Warhol’s visual works, this topic attempted to excavate the core expression ideas and extroverted presentation of his entire artistic career, which are all embodied in the individual internal unique "plot replicating". In the background of era and industry and under the fashion tendency, combining with the personal attributes, this paper analyzed and dissected the origin and forming process of "plot replicating" and how the subsequent art forms evolved into the unique artistic value. Through the contrastive analysis of a series of visual works, it had an insight into how his nature expression of art copied the reality and delivered to this world in a constant stream as an interior driving force. Internationally, art researchers around the world pay more attention to evaluate his position and artistic achievement in art history, but they don’t talk much about the decisive impact of his educational background of artistic designing and work experience as a graphic designer on his artistic career in depth. Around the condensed core commonality of "plot replicating", this topic connected his entire artistic and designing career in series, comprehensively studied the internal relevancy and mutual effect between his artistic and designing career systematically and hierarchically through comparison and analysis, as well as summarized the connotation of ideas and times expression under the astonishing extroverted presentation...