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Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was an American artist who was a central figure
in the movement known as Pop art. After a successful career as a
commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work
as a painter, an avant-garde filmmaker, a record producer, an
author, and a public figure known for his presence in wildly
diverse social circles that included bohemian street people,
distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy
aristocrats. A controversial figure during his lifetime (his work
was often derided by critics as a hoax or "put-on"), Warhol has
been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books and
documentary films since his death in 1987. He is generally
acknowledged as one of the most influential artists of the
twentieth century
Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.He showed an early
artistic talent and studied commercial art at the School of Fine
Arts at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh (now
Carnegie Mellon University). In 1949, he moved to New York City and
began a successful career in magazine illustration and advertising.
He became well-known mainly for his whimsical ink drawings of shoes
done in a loose, blotted ink style. These figured in some of his
earliest showings in New York at the Bodley Gallery.
Born Andrew Warhola, August 6, 1928, in the industrial city of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol is best known for his
exploration of Pop Art, mass producing images of mass produced
objects. His most famous works depicted Campbell's soup cans.
Enlarged, hand-painted or silkscreened, framed, and hung in an art
gallery, Warhol succeeded in turning these mundane images into
ironic "art". Warhol experimented in media such as film, sculpture,
paint, and silkscreen, but perhaps his greatest work was his
invention of himself as an international celebrity and pop culture
icon.
Warhol experimented in media such as film, sculpture, paint, and
silkscreen, but perhaps his greatest work was his invention of
himself as an international celebrity and pop culture icon.
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