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Andy Warhol (/ˈwɔːrhɒl/; born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertising that flourished by the 1960s, and span a ...
- Che Guevara
‘Che Guevara’ was created in 1968 by Andy Warhol in Pop Art...
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Standing Male Torso Andy Warhol • 1950-1955 Fairy and...
- Marilyn Monroe
‘Marilyn Monroe’ was created in 1968 by Andy Warhol in Pop...
- Beethoven
‘Beethoven’ was created in 1987 by Andy Warhol in Pop Art...
- Elvis I & II
‘Elvis I & II’ was created in 1963 by Andy Warhol in Pop Art...
- Mickey
‘Mickey’ was created in 1982 by Andy Warhol in Pop Art...
- Salvador Dali
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquis of...
- Mao
‘Mao’ was created in 1972 by Andy Warhol in Pop Art style....
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Andy Warhol [ˈændi ˈwɔːɹhɔl] (* 6. August 1928 in...
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- The Legacy of Andy Warhol
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
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Warhol’s body of painting clearly underwent three principal stages of development: 1) he would select an image and rework it informally; 2) he then began hand-painting selected images to simulate mass production; and 3) he finally dealt with mass production directly through the use of various reproductive processes.
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Title: Andy Warhol: His Early Works 1947-1959. Artist: Andy Warhol (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1928–1987 New York) Date: 1971. Medium: Color offset lithographs. Dimensions: 18 x 12 1/2 inches (45.7 x 31.8 cm) Classification: Prints. Credit Line: Gift of Gotham Book Mart, 1971.
Warhol's 1982 portrait of Basquiat, Jean-Michel Basquiat, is a silkscreen over an oxidized copper "piss painting". [149] [150] After many years of silkscreen, oxidation, photography, etc., Warhol returned to painting with a brush in hand. In 1983, Warhol began collaborating with Basquiat and Clemente. [151]
- Carnegie Institute of Technology (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Pop art
- Printmaking, painting, cinema, photography
- St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery, Bethel Park, Pennsylvania
May 5, 2015 · Howard Halle. Tuesday May 5 2015. Everyone has to start somewhere, even Andy Warhol, though it’s hard to imagine that today; he produced some of the most famous artworks of the 20th century...
Photo © David McCabe. Warhol’s Celebrities. Andy Warhol, Elvis I & II, 1963, © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. 2015. Warhol’s fascination with popular culture and fame led him to produce a great deal of screen-prints depicting portraits of celebrities, experimenting with variations in colours and multiplication.
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