Andrew Warhola was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Andy was the youngest son born to two immigrants from present-day Slovakia. All throughout his childhood, Andy Warhol suffered from a disease known as Sydenham Chorea which caused him to have involuntary movements in his limbs. Due to his illness, Andy would often have to stay home from school, during which time he would read comics and Hollywood magazines. Because of his perceived physical imperfections, Andy Warhol developed a unique sense of style designed to cover-up/ draw attention away from them. This caused him to play around with different clothing styles, wigs/hair styles, make-up, and cosmetic surgery. This attentiveness to fashion and outward appearances would …show more content…
The first thing Andy did was change his last name from Warhola to Warhol. Twenty-four years after moving to New York, Warhol opened his own art studio called “The Factory”. Warhol’s art studio was where New York’s elites spent their free time, from actors to musicians to the rich socialites. Musician Lou Reed actually wrote a song named The Factory, in which he payed tribute to the eclectic mix of people that could be found in Warhol’s studio. Stewart 2 Andy Warhol was part of the stylistic movement known as Pop Art. This art style creates art that is based off of modern popular culture and the mass media, and is well known for its ironic statements on traditional fine art values and society. Art in the U.S. at this time had somewhat plateaued, some of the more famous paintings done by the abstract expressionists that were once viewed as revolutionary were now seen as cliched and overdone. Muriel Latow, a gallery owner, had given Andy Warhol the idea of painting everyday objects, and Warhol was then praised for conceiving a new art style that simultaneously venerated and condemned the consumerist habits of Americans. Warhol was quoted as saying,”I just paint things I always thought were beautiful, things you use everyday and never think