Ashlynne George
4/5/18
AP Euro
Mr. Kaeser
Ch 28
Andy Warhol was an AMerican artist, director, producer. Andy Warhol was a significant figure in pop art, which was a visual art movement. Andy Warhol began as an advertising illustrator and became the most famous American pop artist. Warhol created commercial art, such as Campbell's soup cans (1962), and photographs of celebrities like Marilyn Monroe (1962) . The detached style of Warhol's prints but pop art at odds with Abstract expressionists. Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh. In 1945, Andy Warhol graduated from Schenley High School. Andy Warhol enrolled in the Carnegie Institute of Technology for college to study commercial art. Andy Warhol joined the campus Modern Dance Club and Beaux Arts Society and served as art director of the student art magazine. Andy Warhol earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in pictorial
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Andy Warhol's studio in New York was a gathering place for well-known intellectuals, drag queens, street people, celebrities, playwrights, and patrons. Andy Warhol is credited with created the expression "15 minutes of fame." Andy Warhol produced the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground and founded Interview magazine in the 1960s and wrote many books like "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism: The Warhol Sixties." The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US$105 million for a 1963 canvas titled "Silver Car Crash". Warhol experienced financial success in the 1980s, due to his connections with several prolific younger artists. Andy Warhol and 15 other artists created a speed skater print for the 1984 winter Olympics, which became the official Sarajevo Winter Olympics poster. In 1984, Warhol embodied the singer Prince in his artwork by creating one of his final portraits, "Orange Prince", to celebrate the success of Prince's album and