Chronicle of an iconic character

 

Andy Warhol

Andrew Warhola born on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

He was an American artist and filmmaker, an initiator and leading exponent of the Pop art movement of the 1960s.

He attended elementary at Holmes School and took free Tam O’Shanter art classes at Carnegie Institute, he attended Carnegie Institute of Technology from 1945 to 1949. 

After graduating from art school with a degree in pictorial design, Warhol moved to New York City to pursue a career as a commercial artist.

Warhol was known for his blotted-line ink drawings, using a process he developed in college and refined in the 1950s.

In 1960, Warhol turned his attention to the pop art movement, which began in Britain in the mid-1950s. In 1961, Warhol created his first pop paintings, which were based on comics and ads.

His most important works were:

- The coca-Cola (1961)

- Portrait of Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and Elizabeth Taylor (1962)

- Campbell soup cans in 1962.

Warhol worked with art assistants and professional printers to produce thousands of silkscreen paintings and print portfolios throughout his lifetime.

On February 22, 1987, Warhol died at New York Hospital in Manhattan due to complications following a surgery to remove his gall bladder. Warhol is buried next to his mother and father at St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery in Bethel Park, a suburb south of Pittsburgh.

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