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    Andy Warhol’s family immigrated to the United States from the town Mikova in Eastern Europe. Andy Warhol was born on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh. His name was originally Andrew Warhola, and he was the youngest of three boys. He and his family were dedicated Byzantine Catholics and always attended mass. When he was eight years old, Andy Warhol was diagnosed with St. Vitus Dance, which did not allow him to leave home. During this time Warhol began creating scrapbooks of movie stars and fell in love

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    The movie “Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol” describes his work as being focused on sex, drugs, and beautiful people. All these of these aspects are a part of Andy Warhol’s personal life and the popular culture of the 1960s. Deeply rooted in the popular culture of the time were the ideas of images, power and politics, all of which are shown through his work. Representation is, as described in “Practices of Looking”, is the use of language and images in order to create a meaning

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    Andy Warhol Did you know that Andy Warhol was a hypochondriac? What a hypochondriac is, is a person who is abnormally anxious about their own health issues. In my opinion I think that Andy Warhol was a really great artist. My favorite thing that he painted is his famous ‘Coca cola bottle’, the year he painted it was in 1962. Andy Warhol began his famous series of his painting the ‘coca cola bottle’ in the 1960’s. Which is my personal favorite artwork. There was 32 Campell soup cans in his painting

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    Pop Artist Andy Warhol

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    considered is a study into the life of pop artist Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol impacted the art world in a big way. I truly believe knowing more about Warhol will not only enhance my knowledge of art history but also impact my personal artistic endeavors. This particular artist is popular and well documented. There are many sources for researching Andy’s life. Sources such as modern art

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    Jean-Michel Basquiat was born on December 22, 1960, in Brooklyn, New York. His mother was a Puerto Rican, and his father was a Haitian immigrant, the combination of both eventually led Jean-Michel's into learning creole, Spanish, and English. At an early age, Jean-Michel decided he wanted to be a cartoonist and so his mother took him to a art museums in order to stimulate his imagination. He showed a precocious talent for drawing, and his mother enrolled him as a Junior Member of the Brooklyn Museum

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    Andy Warhol's Soup Cans

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    have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.” (qtd. in MoMa). When he created this piece you could suppose it was nostalgic because of his memories of eating a can of soup everyday for lunch for so long. Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 6, 1928. His given name being Andrew Warhola

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    artist Andy Warhol was extremely influential in the popularity of the pop-art movement. From his early life, to his famous pieces, Andy Warhol’s influence on the art world was one to be celebrated. Andy Warhol was born on August 6th, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was highly creative at a young age, receiving his 1st camera at eight years old. Years later, he attended Carnegie Institute Of Technology. This high level education paved the way for Andy’s success as an artist. The start of Andy Warhol’s

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    In chapter 3, the repeated phrase “hunted out” (or “hunt out” ) sticks out the most because the phrase is such a hard-hitting and vivid word choice. The first time I noticed the use of this phrase was on page 63, Kingston explains that her mother wanted privacy, so she “hunted out” a secret hiding place at school. In this context, the use of “hunted” makes her seem like a scavenger, trying to find her own little habitat that she could mark as her own territory. “Hunted” is deliberate, instead of

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    Andy Warhol “Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil - of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them and tape-record them. But I didn't think of myself as evil - just realistic.”( Brainy Quotes) This quote from andy warhol shows what kind of artist he truly was. Andrew Warhola was a multitalented artist because of his background or commercial art, film making, and creating pop art. Andy was not just a typical misunderstood artist, he was much more. Andy

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    1. The author, Leslie Chang, contends that “the history of a family begins when a person leaves home”. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Tell why, and then give examples from your own life or from published material outside this book to defend your opinion. I agree with the statement “the history of a family begins when a person leaves home” . when Chang left rural tradition behind to make a new life for themselves in the city. The old rules no longer apply, traditional education and

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