Wednesday, October 14, 2009

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

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