Andy Warhol was born August 6th 1928, in Forest City, Pennsylvania. His family comes from the Austria-Hungary Empire. His father came over from there in 1912 and then sent for his mother to come over here in 1921. Andy graduated from High School in 1945 from Schenley High School in Pittsburgh, PA. He then went onto college and graduated in 1949 from Carnegie-Mellon University. He moved to New York City after college, where he met Tina Fredericks who was an art editor for Glamour magazine. He was able to get a job drawing advertisements for Glamour and also selling women’s shoes. This led to other jobs of drawing advertisements for other company’s such as Vogue, Harpers, Bazzar, book jackets and he also drew holiday greeting cards. In the 1952 he got his first solo art exhibit. It was held at the Hugo Gallery in New York. His drawings were illustrations for stories that Truman Capote wrote. This led him to start illustrating books for other writers as well. Like Amy Vanderbilt’s Complete Book of Etiquette. In 1956 he traveled with Charles Lisanby who was a television-set designer. In that same year he was included in his first group exhibition. It was called Recent Drawings USA and it was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. After all this time and work Andy started to receive awards for his hard work that he was putting in. One of the first awards that he won was the 35th Annual Art Directors Club, for Distinctive Merit for an I. Miller shoe
Andy went to Cincinnati’s school for creative and performing arts, {in high school}. He majored in subjects like drama and vocal music.
Art Spiegelman was born on February 15 1948 in Stockholm Sweden. In 1951 Art, Anja Spiegelman (his mother), and Vladek Spiegelman (his father) emigrated from Stockholm to Norristown Pennsylvania, and eventually to Queens NY six years later. Art started drawing cartoons in 1960 for his high school, Russell Sage Junior High, and at this point was being paid for his work by multiple newspapers. In 1963 he enrolled into the high school of Art and Design (Ray). Art then chose to go Harpur College to pursue his comic career despite his parents wanting him to become a dentist. After an internship at Topps Chewing Gum Company he was given the job in the product development at the age of 18. In 1968 Art admitted himself into a metal hospital because
Andrew Goodman was born on November 23, 1943 in New York City. He was one of three sons in a liberal Jewish household. Andy became involved in social and political activism at an early age. He attended a private high school in New York, the Walden School, and then went on to attend Queens College.
Andy Goldsworthy’s own life has a great impact on the work he creates. He was born on July 26, 1956 and grew up on the farm,
As a child he had gotten Scarlet Fever as a child and eventually it induced his disease that had symptoms of skin blotchiness, thinning of the hair, and attacks on his nervous system. Andy was known to draw in his house as a child and as he grew up he eventually found work in drawing for ads
Andy Warhol was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He had two older brothers, John and Paul. At the age of six, due to an illness, he was confined to his bed. Andy had chorea. Chorea is a disease that causes involuntary movements, that get worse in situations of stress or anxiety. Some cases it only looked like the kid was clumsy, but in Andy’s case it was pretty bad. Woth that disease, it gave his mother the perfect opportunity to teach her son how to trace, draw, take pictures, and things like that. With his mo His mother bought him his first camera at the age of nine. He went to school at Carnegie Institute ( Carnegie Museum of Art), Schenley High
In 1952, the Hugo Gallery featured Andy’s exhibit. Obsessed with Truman Capote’s writing at the time, Andy dedicated his exhibit to Truman’s writings. While still working for Glamour, Seventeen, and Vouge as a commercial artist, Charles Lisanby; who maintained a valuable friendship with Andy, they vacationed around the world for two months. A couple years after he made his
Andy Warhol is one of the most famous and influential artists of the 20th century. Warhol like many other artists had a childhood experience that would forever change and help transform him into the adult he became. As a young boy Warhol had a nervous system disease that left him
diaries are not actual written records of his day to day accounts, but they are
Shortly after discovering his love or art, Andrew Warhola was diagnosed with Sydenham’s chorea; a disorder that results in uncontrollable body movements, and the lack of motor skills. Upon extreme ridicule in school and worsening of his condition, his kitchen was turned into a makeshift recovery room. It is in this room that Andy began to collect celebrity pictures and formed his obsession with popular culture. Eventually getting better, at around age 9 Andy was enrolled in art classes at the
Andy’s father passed away when he was 14. His father died from jaundiced liver. Warhol didn’t attend his father’s funeral because he was to heartbroken. His father stated in his will that all his life savings were to go to Andy so he could go to college. He recognized his son’s artistic talents.
Andy Warhol (Andrew Warhola) was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 6, 1928. His parents were Julia and Ondrej Warhola and was the youngest of three boys. Warhol became ill with St. Vitus' disease when he was younger, which is a complication of scarlet fever.
Andrew Warhola’s (he later dropped the “a”) birth date is uncertain, Andy said himself that his birth certificate had been forged and June 6, 1928 became the date taken as his birthday. Others say he was born December 6, 1930 and then others say it was August 6, 1928. Andy was very mysterious about his private life and was said to be in another world most of the time. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His parents, Ondrej and Julia Warhola were working-class immigrants from Eastern Europe, his
He continued his education at the Carnegie Institute in Pennsylvania graduating with a BA in Fine Art. Warhol moved to New York in 1948-49 where he started work as a graphic designer, creating adverts for fashion magazines such as Glamour, Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. Andy Warhol shot to fame and soon became highly respected as a commercial artist. ”Tina Fredrick, then art director of Glamour” says “She was thrilled by Andy’s drawings but could not find a commercial use for them. She told him his drawings were good, but Glamour could only use drawings of shoes at the moment. The next day Warhol came back with 50 drawings of shoes” footwear being an important part of his advertising career until the mid 1960s.
Andy Warhol did a lot of paintings, mostly comics of artist or ads. The one that became his favorite one was the Campbell’s soup cans. The idea of him painting this painting came through an ad he saw at a gallery. This painting is different than all the paintings he has done throughout his career because it’s comic-strip painting.