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Some of his best known works include the silkscreen paintings Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) and Marilyn Diptych (1962), the experimental film Chelsea Girls (1966), and the multimedia events known as the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966–67). Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Warhol initially pursued a successful career as a commercial illustrator.
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Andy Warhol [ˈændi ˈwɔːɹhɔl] (* 6. August 1928 in...
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The museum’s art collection includes 900 paintings; approximately 100 sculptures; nearly 2,000 works on paper; more than 1,000 published and unique prints; 4,000 photographs; 60 feature films; 200 Screen Tests; and more than 4,000 videos. The collection also features Warhol wallpaper and books.
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Andy was the third child born to Czechoslovakian immigrant parents, Ondrej and Ulja (Julia) Warhola, in a working class neighborhood of Pittsburgh. He had two older brothers, John and Paul. As a child, Andy was smart and creative. His mother, a casual artist herself, encouraged his artistic urges by giving him his first camera at nine years old. Wa...
After graduating from high school at the age of 16 in 1945, Warhol attended Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), where he received formal training in pictorial design. Shortly after graduating, in 1949, he moved to New York City, where he worked as a commercial illustrator. His first project was for Glamour magazine fo...
In September 1960, after moving to a townhouse at 1342 Lexington Avenue, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, he began his most prolific period. From having no dedicated studio space in his previous apartment, where he lived with his mother, he now had plenty of room to work. In 1962 he offered the Department of Real Estate $150 a month to rent a n...
In the late 1970s and 1980s, Warhol made a return to painting, and produced works that frequently verged on abstraction. His Oxidation Painting series, which were made by urinating on a canvas of copper paint, echoed the immediacy of the Abstract Expressionists and the rawness of Jackson Pollock's drip paintings. By the 1980s, Warhol had regained m...
Andy Warhol was one of the most influential artists of the second half of the 20thcentury, creating some of the most recognizable images ever produced. Challenging the idealist visions and personal emotions conveyed by abstraction, Warhol embraced popular culture and commercial processes to produce work that appealed to the general public. He was o...
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- August 6, 1928
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- February 22, 1987
In the 1980s, he returned to painting in works like the giant Rorschach. As suggested by Leonardo da Vinci, The Annunciation 1473, he also turned his creative attentions to art history itself. Two years after his death in 1987, MoMA mounted its first retrospective of his work.
- Campbell’s Soup Cans. Campbell’s Soup Cans was created between November 1961 and March or April 1962. It is made up of thirty-two canvases, each measuring 20 inches (51 cm) in height and 16 inches (41 cm) in breadth and each containing a painting of a Campbell’s Soup can—one of each of the canned soup types produced by the business at the time.
- Marilyn Diptych. The Marilyn Diptych (1962) is a silkscreen artwork, and it is one of the artist’s most well-known depictions of the movie actress. The artwork is made up of 50 images.
- Shot Marilyns. The Shot Marilyns were created in 1964 and comprise of four canvases, each 40-inch square and each with a painting of Marilyn Monroe shot in the forehead by a single bullet.
- Brillo Box. Sculptures that replicate the packaging of mass-produced commodities—cornflakes, Kellogg’s Del Monte peaches, Brillo scouring pads—are among Warhol’s most well-known works.
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Some of his best-known works include the silkscreen paintings Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) and Marilyn Diptych (1962), the experimental films Empire (1964) and Chelsea Girls (1966), and the multimedia events known as the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966–67).
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