ANDY WARHOL- pop artist who revolutionized art culture
- 1928-1987
Famous Warhol Works:
- Cambells Soup
- Gold Marilyn Monroe, 1962Elvis,
- 1963The Last Supper
Advertising, popular culture, and design
leading American pop artists
non-threatening gall bladder operation complicates and leads to death
In 1994 the Andy Warhol Museum opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1968 one of the Factory regulars shot Andy Warhol in the stomach injuring several internal organs by crazy feminist Valarie Solanas
"Elementary school was traumatic for Warhol, especially once he contracted St. Vitus' dance (chorea, a disease that attacks the nervous system and makes someone shake uncontrollably)." -http://history1900s.about.com/od/artists/p/warhol.htm
Went to carnagie mellon
earned a reputation in the 1950s