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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.
Nov 16, 2022 · Andy Warhol was perhaps the most important and best known artist of the Pop Art movement. A first-generation immigrant born in Pittsburgh, Warhol foresaw America's changing culture.
Aug 30, 2019 · See the fact file below for more information on the Andy Warhol or alternatively, you can download our 23-page Andy Warhol worksheet pack to utilise within the classroom or home environment. Key Facts & Information EARLY LIFE. Andy Warhol was born on August 6, 1928, in the neighborhood of Oakland in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US$105 million for a 1963 canvas titled Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster); his works include some of the most expensive paintings ever sold. A 2009 article in The Economist described Warhol as the "bellwether of the art market". Warhol was born on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
An iconic figure in twentieth-century art and culture, Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola, the son of working-class immigrants from Slovakia. He studied commercial art in Pittsburgh before moving to New York in 1949 and beginning a highly successful career as an advertising illustrator. A decade later Warhol started making paintings (at first handmade, later […]
Andy Warhol, Self-portrait, 1979. Large-format Polaroid, 20 x 24 inches. ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Andy Warhol changed the way we look at the world, and the way the world looks at art. With his exhaustive observation of cultural trends, from his rise to Pop art fame in the early 1960s up until his death in 1987, he ...
Andy Warhol. Campbell's Soup Cans. 1962. Acrylic with metallic enamel paint on canvas, 32 panels. Each canvas 20 x 16" (50.8 x 40.6 cm). Overall installation with 3" between each panel is 97" high x 163" wide. Partial gift of Irving Blum Additional funding provided by Nelson A. Rockefeller Bequest, gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. M. Burden, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund, gift of Nina and ...
