Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (Andrew War hole) was born on 6th of August, on 1928 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He studied in the Carnegie Institute of Technology, the specialty of painting and sculpture. After his graduation in 1949 he moved to New York, where he was very successful soon as adverts illustrate and graphic designer. Later he was famous of his work in painting and vanguard cinema.
He was a polemic person during his live –someone critics qualify his works like odd work- and from his death there are a lot of expositions of him, books and documentaries.

He was the most outstanding person of the pop art, and one of more influential artists of the S.XX. Is the best image of New York on 70s and 80s.
Between his first works there are the works that he makes from comics onward and his famous bottles of Coca-Cola (Green Bottles of Coca-Cola, 1962) or the sop tin plate of Campbell. His work is based on the image power and the theme is the consumption world or the communication means.
There is one thing that differentiate him of the rest of pop art artists; he work with the repetition of one image, in different formats and colors. Warhol take know images and repeat it changing.

He had collections of Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor, Jacqueline Kennedy, Carolina Herrera…

He died on 22 th of February, on 1987, when he was 58 years old.

This is an interesting page for know more of Andy Warhol.

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http://redescolar.ilce.edu.mx/redescolar/act_permanentes/luces_de_la_ciudad/Memorias/fotografia/andyw.htm
http://www.artelino.com/articles/andy_warhol.asp