Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, film director, and author. Warhol also worked as a music producer and actor. With his background and experience in applied art, Warhol was one of the protagonists of pop art in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. Warhol is also called the "Silver Prince of Pop." Warhol is especially famous for his "flat," high-contrast paintings and screen prints of packaged products and everyday objects such as Campbell's soup cans, flowers, and the banana on the cover of the album The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967), as well as for his stylized portraits of 20th-century celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Grace Jones, Elvis Presley, Judy Garland, and Elizabeth Taylor. Education: Warhol studied pictorial design at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh from 1945 to 1949. Warhol lived and worked primarily in New York. Warhol was born Andrew Warhola, the son of two immigrants from Slovakia. After his education in Pittsburgh, he moved to New York, where he worked as a commercial illustrator. In the 1960s, he began painting famous American products in the style for which he is so well-known. Warhol created a media frenzy around himself and his art and was close friends with several celebrities, many of whom he also portrayed. In 1964, he established his studio in a former cap factory and named it "The Factory": thus, he himself was part of the commercial mass production that was the subject of his art. He also criticized society, with a series of works depicting, among other things, electric chairs and car accidents. His work later became increasingly conceptual, which aligns with the impersonal quality of Warhol's "factory art." Type of work: Lithograph Signature: Signed Edition: 10/500 Framed: No Size: 50 x 50 cm (h x w) Condition: Excellent Publisher: CMOA (Carnegie Museum of Art)
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ConditionExcellentColorsWhite, Red, BlackMaterialPaperNumber of items1ArtistsAndy WarholOrientationSquareArt sizeSmallHeight50 cmWidth50 cm