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Pop Art: Andy Warhol

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1. What is the name of your artist, year and country of their birth, and what page in the text book is the artist mentioned?
Andy Warhol was born in 1928 in the United States. Andy Warhol is mentioned several times throughout our text book, the first time is in chapter one, on page 19. The second time is in chapter ten on page 225, and the third and final time is in chapter twenty-one on page 526.
2. What is the full website where you found information about your artist?
I found information on Andy Warhol on two websites, the first is http://www.warhol.org/collection/aboutandy/biography/; and the second is http://www.biography.com/people/andy-warhol-9523875.
3. What is your artists’ primary media?
Andy Warhol primarily used paint, such as …show more content…

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