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About Andy Warhol
Warhol was born in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , United States , to immigrants of Ruthenian ethnicity from the village of Mikova , northeast Slovakia . He showed early artistic talent and studied commercial art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now known as Carnegie Mellon University ) in Pittsburgh . Upon graduating in 1949, he moved to New York City and began a successful career in magazine illustration and advertising. He became well-known mainly for his whimsical ink drawings of shoes done in a loose, blotted style. In the 1960s, he started to make paintings of famous American products like Campbell 's soup cans and Coca-Cola. He switched to silkscreen prints, seeking not only to make art of mass produced items, but to mass produce the art itself. He hired and supervised "art workers" engaged in making prints, shoes, films and other items at his studio, The Factory, located on Union Square in New York City . In the 1970s and 1980s he mainly made prints of famous people such as Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley. Iconic figures and famous people are a general theme in Warhol's work. |
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Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola; the original surname of his parents was Varchola) August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American painter, film-maker, publisher and a major figure in the pop art movement.