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Discover facts about the artist, film-maker and author Andy Warhol. Read about his artworks and his role in the Pop Art movement.
Andy Warhol's America. He was a pioneering artist and cultural icon - and his work is a history of 20th-century America. A country reinventing itself - as seen through an artist's eye. Series 1: 1 ...
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- The son of Slovakian immigrants, he was born in Pittsburgh and named Andrew Warhola. He later dropped the “a” in Warhola to make it sound more “American.”
- He was raised Byzantine Catholic and regularly attended mass for most of his life. He even had an audience with the Pope.
- He was the first in his family to go to college, at what is now known as Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where he studied pictorial design.
- In 1956 the Museum of Modern Art in New York rejected Warhol’s offer to donate one of his shoe drawings after the museum included it—or one very similar—in an exhibition.
What is pop art? Who was Andy Warhol? Find out in this BBC Bitesize KS1 Art and Design guide.
Jan 6, 2022 · Series 1. Episode 1 of 3. How Warhol both glorified and critiqued American culture on his journey from childhood poverty in Pittsburgh to the A-list of New York society. Available now. 58...
Feb 13, 2020 · 19. Of the four largest canvasses in Warhol's Death and Disaster series, one was featured in Sotheby's New York Contemporary Art Evening auction 2013; the other three belong to prestigious museum collections. 20. Warhol likened his process of executing silk-screened canvasses to the workings of a machine. 21.
