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I Born on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol was a successful
magazine and ad illustrator who became a leading
artist of the 1960s Pop Art movement. He ventured
into a wide variety of art forms, including
performance art, filmmaking, video installations
and writing, and controversially blurred the lines
between fine art and mainstream aesthetics.
Born Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928, in the
neighborhood of Oakland in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol's parents were
Slovakian immigrants. His father, Ondrej Warhola,
was a construction worker, while his mother, Julia
Warhola, was an embroiderer. They were devout
Catholics who attended mass regularly, and
maintained much of their Slovakian culture and heritage while living in one of Pittsburgh's Eastern
European ethnic enclaves.
Warhol attended Holmes Elementary school and
took the free art classes offered at the Carnegie
Institute (now the Carnegie Museum of Art) in
Pittsburgh.
In the late 1950s, Warhol began devoting more
attention to painting, and in 1961, he debuted the
concept of "pop art"-paintings that focused on
mass-produced commercial goods. In 1962, he exhibited the now-iconic paintings of Campbell's
soup cans. These small canvas works of everyday consumer products created a major stir in the art world, bringing both Warhol and pop art into the
national spotlight for the first time.
British artist Richard Hamilton described pop art as
"popular, transient, expendable, low cost, mass-
produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky,
glamorous, big business."
Warhol's other famous pop paintings depicted
Coca-cola bottles, vacuum cleaners and hamburgers. He also painted celebrity portraits in
vivid and garish colors; his most famous subjects
include Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Mick
Jagger and Mao Zedong. As these portraits gained
fame and notoriety, Warhol began to receive
hundreds of commissions for portraits from
socialites and celebrities. His portrait " Eight
Elvises" eventually resold for $100 million in 2008,
making it one of the most valuable paintings in
world history.
In 1964, Warhol opened his own art studio, a large
silver-painted warehouse known simply as "The
Factory." The Factory quickly became one of New
York City's premier cultural hotspots, a scene of
lavish parties that were attended by the city's
SI wealthiest socialites and celebrities. Warhol died
on February 22, 1987, in New York City at the age of 58.