The Whimsical Andy Warhol
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Talk about pop art and no other name comes to mind first before Andy Warhol. Born as Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928, he is a famous painter, printmaker, record producer, filmmaker and author from America. Also popular for coining the term “15 minutes of fame”, but his art has endured decades of fame and his style has become immortal in the pop art world. He is a member of extremely diverse social communities such as wealthy people, Hollywood celebrities, renowned intellectuals and even bohemian street people. The Andy Warhol Museum is found in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Warhol‘s hometown. His 1963 painting Eight Elvises was bought for the price of $100 Million which is considered a benchmark price that has only been attained by Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Gustav Klimt. He has also been the topic of many books, films (documentaries and features) and exhibitions.
He studied commercial art at the School of Fine Arts at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now called Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh. In 1949, he went to New York City to pursue a profession in magazine advertising and illustration. He became famous in the 1950s because of quirky drawings of shoe ads. He also worked as an album cover and promotional materials designer for RCA Records.
On July 9, 1962, he held his first solo art exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. This was also the debut of pop art in the West Coast. Also in the 1960s, he started making paintings featuring Campbell’s Soup Cans, as well as celebrities like Elizabeth Taylor and Muhammad Ali.
He died in February 22, 1987 because of cardiac arrhythmia after a gallbladder surgery.
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