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Who Is Andy Warhol: Commercial Illustrator

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Andy Warhol: Commercial Illustrator, Artist, Filmmaker, and Author Andy Warhol’s parents came from a village in the Carpathian Mountains, in what is now Slovakia. Andy was the third child born to his Czechoslovakian immigrant parents in a working class neighborhood of Pittsburgh. As a child, Andy was smart and creative. When Andy was eight years old he came down with rheumatic fever causing him to miss two months of school that year. He spent his time at home reading comic books and movie star magazines. It was this exposure to current events at a young age that he later said shaped his obsession with pop culture and celebrities. His mother always encouraged his artistic urges and enrolled him in the Carnegie Institute’s free art classes at nine years old. Warhol’s father was a construction worker who died of peritonitis when Andy was thirteen. His father left money to be specifically used towards higher learning for Andy because he knew Andy had a great talent for art. …show more content…

At only 17 years old, he struggled during his first year due to not having the reading and writing skills needed for college level work. His professors knew that he had talent, but Andy did not perform as well as he was required. His grades suffered to the point where he was required to attend summer classes in order for him to stay enrolled. He eventually became an admired figure at the school. After Andy graduated from college in 1949, Andy and his friend Philip Pearlstein left Pittsburg for New York City to become commercial artists and there, Andy found work as an

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