But Danto never quite explains how we know it is art in the first place. To the right is the sculpture Dedication Monument (Brillo) by Alex Da Corte from 2016. Brillo Box is a work of art because it exemplifies and instantiates a theory of the nature of art. Coinciding with what would have been Warhol’s 89th birthday, Brillo Box (3¢ Off), traces the story of the $3.05 million sculpture. Students use higher-level thinking skills to differentiate between tastes and biases and to listen to diverse perspectives, even if the perspectives differ from their own. After being constructed by craftsmen to Warhol’s specifications, the wooden boxes were first hand-painted and … Premise: Andy Warhol's Brillo Boxes is a stack of boxes that are virtually indistinguishable from the packaging of actual brillo pads stacked on one another. Needless to say, this claim has been the subject of an enormous amount of debate, at least within the philosophical community.

Students think about an often-controversial work of art, Andy Warhol’s Brillo Box, in order to judge for themselves what constitutes good art. A compact HBO documentary premiering Monday takes us on a nearly 50-year journey with an Andy Warhol Brillo box, synthesizing the art, commerce and culture of an entire era. One of those people is Lisanne Skyler, whose documentary “Brillo Box (3 cents off)” premieres Monday night on HBO at 10 p.m. (just a day after Warhol’s birthday). Executed in March - April 1964.

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 … Marilyn diptych by Andy Warhol. And what this demonstrates, he argues, is that Warhol was a distinguished visual thinker, a true philosopher of art. 43.2 x 43.2 x 35.6 cm. Like Warhol’s Brillo Box of 1965, art has layers of meaning; both for the artist who invests meaning upon his work and the audience who provides the aesthetic response to the artwork. From the Catalogue: Executed in 1964, the present work belongs to Andy Warhol’s iconic series of Brillo Soap Pads boxes, which came to define the Pop art movement and re-define traditional notions of sculpture. Featuring interviews with prominent figures of the contemporary art world and the first owners of the box in question, Skyler’s parents. Beside the original Brillo Box from 1968 and the “Stockholm Type”—boxes from 1990, the exhibition tells the story of how Warhol’s Brillo Box has been both commercialized and served as an inspiration for other artists. As he accepts Warhol's Brillo Box, a priori, as a work of art we are left wondering whether art is simply something created by someone calling themselves an artist that is displayed in an art gallery. In the final analysis, in the realm of art, Warhol’s work is still open for interpretation. Icon of Pop Art: Andy Warhol's Brillo Soap Pads Boxes' from 1964 Presented by Stardust Modern Design Andy Warhol 'Brillo Soap Pads Box' Silkscreen Ink and House Paint on Plywood 17 x 17 x 14 in. Brillo Boxes is considered a work of art, but an actual stack of brillo pad boxes wouldn't be.