Andy Warhol was born on the 6th of August 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Warhol's parents were Slovakian immigrants. Warhol’s father was a construction worker, and his mother was an embroiderer. At an early age, Warhol got a neurological disorder, Sydenham Chorea. The disease made Warhol left to rest at home for months, in these months this was when his mother, Julia began teaching him to draw and it soon became his favourite thing to do in his spare time. A year later at the age of 9 his mother bought him a camera and he took up photography. Warhol then attended Holmes Elementary school and took the free art classes at Carnegie Institute which is now the Carnegie Museum of Art. In 1942 Warhol was 14 and his father passed away. Warhol’s father new his son was artistically gifted and in his will said his life savings go to Warhol’s education. …show more content…
Once Warhol graduated from college with his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1949, he moved to New York City to follow a career as a commercial artist. He got a job at Glamour magazine and soon went on to be one of the most successful commercial artists of the 1950s. Warhol won many awards for his quirky style. In the late 1950s, he started dedicating more of his time to painting, and in 1961, he introduce the idea of "pop art". In 1962, Warhol exhibited the paintings of Campbell's soup cans. These paintings of regular consumer products caused a big stir in the art world, bringing both Warhol and pop art into the national spotlight for the first time. British artist Richard Hamilton described pop art as "popular, transient, expendable, low cost, mass-produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, big business." As Warhol himself put it, "Once you 'got' pop, you could never see a sign the same way again. And once you thought pop, you could never see America the same way