Andy Warhol

His life:
In 1928, Andrew Warhola was born on August the sixth, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Andy Warhol is best known for his exploration of Pop Art, mass producing images of mass produced objects. His most famous works is of Campbell's soup cans. Enlarged, framed, and hung in an art gallery, these where the start of a whole new art style and life for Andy.. Warhol experimented in media such as film, paint ,silkscreen , and sculpture but perhaps his best achievement is being the pop- icon of art, all around the world.

Andrew found work in New York, a city he made his home and studio for the rest of his life. Warhol garnered top assignments as a commercial artist for a variety of clients including Columbia Records, Glamour magazine, Harpers Bazaar, NBC, Tiffany & Co., Vogue, and others. He is famous because he started to be the icon of pop art and convinced people to like it and accept it and promote it as a type of art. People started to consider him as the father of pop-art and the icon too. Warhol started painting readily found, mass-produced objects, drawing on his extensive background. When asked about the impulse to paint Campbells soup cans, Warhol replied, I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and that was it. The humble soup cans would soon take their place among the Marilyn Monroes, Dollar Signs, Disasters, and Coca Cola Bottles as essential, exemplary works of contemporary art.

http://www.warholfoundation.org/legacy/biography.html There are more pictures and artwork that Andy did on this website :D

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