Andy Warhol's Life And Pop Art

Andy Warhol:

Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928, in the neighborhood of Oakland in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His parents were Andrej Warhola and Julia Zavacky Warhola they were Slovakian immigrants, his mother was an embroiderer and his father was a construction worker. They were also Byzantine Catholics who attended mass regularly. Andy Warhol was the youngest of three, he attended Carnegie Institution of Technology which is now called Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh he became a successful magazine and ad illustrator in 1949. Later on in the year he moved to New York to pursue a career of a Commercial artist, where he published his first piece of work which appeared in Glamour magazine in the month of September.

In the 1950’s he became a leading artist of Pop art movements, and from that point on he focused on customer goods and pop-culture icons, as well as his own taste for money and fame, suggest a life in celebration of the very aspects of American culture that his work criticized. Warhol had a desire to bring art to life, most people knew him by his photo taking skills and for the man that quoted everything. One of his quotes that he liked to say was “I love it when you ask actors, what’re you doing now? And they say I’m between roles. To be living life between roles, that’s my

He ventured into a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations and writing. He won numerous awards for his work from the Art Directors Club and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. His clients included Tiffany & Co., The New York Times, I. Miller Shoes, Bonwit Teller, Columbia Records, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Fleming-Joffe, NBC, and others. Warhol had a lifelong fascination with Hollywood, in 1962 he began a large series of celebrity portraits, including Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and Elizabeth Taylor, that’s when he also started his series of “death and disaster” paintings. He was mostly famous for his silk screen prints of Marilyn Monroe and Campbell’s soup cans – Warhol worked for years as an artist for fashion catalogs and magazines such as Vanity Fair and it didn’t stop there he also employed the delightfully quirky handwriting of his mother Julia in many of his works. A professional award was giving to her for lettering on the LP “The Story of Moondog” in 1958, and Warhol published a book of her drawings, Holy Cats, in the late 50’s. She was recognized by “Andy Warhol’s Mother” she later moved in with her son in 1952, until her death. For a while Warhol painted memorial portraits of her and he made a film and shot videotapes of her. His first book was published in 1975 “The Philosophy of