I Shot Andy Warhol

Artists name, year of birth, country of birth, and textbook page where the artist is mentioned. - Andy Warhol, born August 6, 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., and page 508. 2. Complete website where you found information about the artist. -http://www.biography.com/people/andy-warhol-9523875#related-video-gallery 3. What is his/her primary media? -He ventured into a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations and writing, and controversially blurred

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.

to alter his first name to Andy before graduating school in 1949. Upon graduating the Carnegie Institute of Technology, he received a Bachelor degree in Fine Arts, therefore; moved to Manhattan looking for work and resided in several different apartments. In one of the apartments he lived in he had met Tina Fredericks, she edited the art for Glamour magazine. In 1949, he had an assignment to draw shoes for the magazine. Glamour magazine misprinted his last name to Warhol. That mistake made him decide

Andy Warhol being not simply a Pop artist, but an American artist who was known as the master of Pop Art, and about two of Warhol’s most famous paintings; Coca-Cola and Campbell’s Soup Cans. Andy Warhol was an artist and filmmaker, an initiator for the Pop Art movement in the 1960s. Warhol used mass production techniques to elevate art into the supposed unoriginality of the commercial culture of the United States. Warhol’s early drawings frequently recalls the Anglo-Saxon tradition of nonsense humor

I selected Andy Warhol because I have long admired his crazy, quirky, unconventional style of producing works of art from normal, everyday subjects ranging from inanimate, normally unnoticed objects to pop culture celebrity icons. I first heard of him in 1986 when his show Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes aired on MTV. The show featured Andy interviewing what he thought was the next up-and-coming musical sensations about to get their "fifteen minutes of fame." Two years later on a poster in the

bottom. It was not until after this piece he began using a silkscreen process. Warhol says he was inspired by the soup cans because “...used to drink it. I used to 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

Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhol on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was an American artist who was a main figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works investigate the relationship between imaginative expression, superstar culture, and promoting that thrived by the 1960s. After a fruitful career as a business artist, Warhol turned into a famous and here and there disputable artist. His specialty utilized many sorts of media, including hand drawing, painting, printmaking

My visit to the Menil collection was an opportunity to learn and experience the wonders of science and natural history. The museum was free admission, so I did not have to pay which was good. The stunning exhibits from all over the world offers an extraordinary approach. The Menil Collection is the collection of art gathered by Jean and Dominique de Menil. Moreover the tribal, Byzantine, antiquity, medieval and 20th century art kept in the main building, there are four additional satellite exhibits

Andy Warhol was the revolutionaire who led America and the rest of the world into an era of pop art with his iconic style. “For many his ascent echoes one of pop art's ambitions, to bring popular styles and subjects into the exclusive salons of high art. His crowning achievement was the elevation of his own persona to the level of a popular icon, representing a new kind of fame and celebrity for a fine artist”(The Art Story). Although very famous in later life, he had a simple childhood; he was often

His other noticeable work is Shadow man, which is similar to his Image Mass Murder where is splashes paint on the ground but instead of it around a chalked out outline it is brushed in the shape of a silhouetted. These images were created in different areas that would make the pedestrians have the most impact when they saw it, which was around corners and in dark alleys. Most of these pieces were in New York city but later expanded to some parts of Europe, including both sides of The Berlin Wall