Artist Name: Andy Warhol
British, 1928 – 1987
Andy Warhol is the front figure for the popular art movement. He was a successful magazine and ad illustrator (Biography, 2019).
Art Style: Pop art & Modernism
Inspiration: Commercial goods
Associated with: Creating colorful art out of celebrity portraits
Facts: Andy Warhol born in America, 1928. His parents were Slovakian immigrants. Warhol got sick at the age of 13, which made him stay in bed for months. It was during this time his mom introduced him to art and gave him a drawing lesson. Warhol quickly got a interested in drawing. When older, Warhol started university to study pictorial design. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine arts and decided to move to New York to start a career as a commercial artist. He started working at Glamour magazine, where he extremely successful and won awards for his original style. Warhol became a celebrity and was seen on clubs like Studio 54. In 1968, a radical feminist tried to take Warhols life by shooting him. He survived and had too spend weeks at the hospital recovering. Warhol tried a variety of art forms, such as performance art, creating films and writing. Some of his most famous pop paintings portrayed coca-cola bottles, celebrity portrays, tomato soup containers and hamburgers. In 1987 Warhol passed away from chronic issues with his gall bladder. His work got a lot of positive feedback throughout his lifetime but also got critiqued for being too ”materialistic” (Biography, 2019).
Do I like his art? Yes. I love that most of it is very colorful. It’s perhaps not my favorite type of art style though.
Reference: Biography, (2019), Andy Warhol Biography. Retrieved from
https://www.biography.com/artist/andy-warhol
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