Importance of Factory and What is Represented Summary

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Importance of Factory and What is Represented
The factory was vital since it was a center for artistic expression and attracted many artists to unleash their creative potential. Although it was started as a simple studio in the 1960s, the factory quickly became a place that drew people from all works of life (Flatley, Jonathan, 7). As far as art is concerned, the factory was important at offering unique opportunities to people with various artistic orientations at that time. To exemplify how important the factory was to the members of the art community, it would attract musicians, models, socialites, film stars, among other cadres. While a significant number helped Andy Warhol complete his projects initially, the factory soon became a famous center. The fame mainly came from the wild parties held at the factory as well as the artistic expression experiments. There are many people whose talents in art were nurtured in the factory. The factory represented a place where stories and issues relating to the community and the wider society were represented creatively in the form of art.
How was it actually like a factory?
Factories usually focus on the mass production of goods and consumerism. Therefore, it is unlikely that a person would associate art and creativity with a factory. However, unique circumstances and factors make Andy Warhol's studio actually like a factory. First, the mechanical nature of the pop art that was being carried out in the studio made the name factory a fitting name. At the time, art was generally defined and perpetrated by the elites. Further, there seems that no one had thought of scaling up the production of art for commercial purposes as Andy Warhol did. Since Warhol pioneered a rather commercial approach towards art production, his studio was actually like a factory. He targeted at reaching a large number of people through his art. He achieved this goal by placing the figures of pop culture at the center of his work. Consequently, he appealed to a broad audience and was able to target the masses. The silk-screening process by which Warhol used to produce his work further exemplifies his studio as a factory. The process would focus on adopting a method that would reproduce a piece many times and with a high speed rather than concentrating on producing one part at a time using the hand.
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