Today I was searing the web for interesting pieces of art and artists and one famous artist caught my attention; Andy Warhol. Any Warhol is a very famous pop art style artist.
Andy Warhol (or Andrew Warhola) was born on August 6th, 1928. In his early career he studied commercial art at the School of Fine Arts at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburge, Pennsylvania. From there he moved to New York City in 1949 to begin a successful career in magazine illustration and advertising. From then on he gained fame or his ink drawings of shoe advertisment. Seeing this the RCA Records hired him to design album covers and promotional materials.
In the 1960's Warhol started making paintings for products such as Campbells's Soup Cans and Coca-Cola bottles as well as painting celeberaties such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and more.
Andy Warhol worked with many different media and aside from an artist was also a writer and a movie maker. Warhol had a very interesting life but his message was always the same. He wanted to remove the difference between the "fine arts" and the "commercial arts."
Andy Warhol was and is a very inspiring pop artist. I love his work and I think it looks very interesting and very bold with all of the viberant colors. :)
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