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Discover facts about the artist, film-maker and author Andy Warhol. Read about his artworks and his role in the Pop Art movement.

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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhola was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1928. He was an American artist and a leader of the pop art movement of the 1960s.

When he was eight years old, Andy was sick in bed for several months, and his artistic mother gave him his first drawing lessons. He also read celebrity magazines and DC comic books. Growing up, he enjoyed movies. His mother bought him a camera, and he took up photography. He developed film in a makeshift darkroom in the basement. He took free art classes at the Carnegie Institute.

In 1949, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Carnegie Institute for Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University). He moved to New York City to work as a commercial artist. This was when he dropped the "a" at the end of his last name. He did work for Columbia Records, Glamour magazine, Harper's Bazaar, NBC, Tiffany's, Vogue and others. He was one of the most successful commercial artists of the 1950s and won many awards.

He began to be interested in painting and the idea of "pop art" - paintings of mass-produced commercial goods. He made paintings of comic book characters, Campbell's soup cans, Coca-Cola bottles, vacuum cleaners and hamburgers. He also used vivid colors to paint portraits of celebrities including Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Mick Jagger and Mao Zedong. His work tried to remove the difference between fine art and the commercial art used for magazine illustrations, comic books, or ad campaigns. He developed a technique for projecting photographic images onto a silk screen to create repetitive designs.
Andy had many interests and tried many things. He had an ambition to become famous and wealthy. A friend described him as a workaholic. He created sculptures of hundreds of large-sized replicas of supermarket products including boxes of Brillo, Heinz Ketchup, Kellogg's Cornflakes Boxes and Campbell's Tomato Juice. He created hundreds of films. Some films had scripts and some were improvised. His works include Empire, The Chelsea Girls, and the Screen Tests. In 1968, Valerie Solanas, an actress in one of his films, shot Andy and Mario Amaya. Warhol was seriously wounded and barely survived. He never completely recovered from his injuries.

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As he grew older, he seemed to become more and more outlandish in his work and his personal appearance. He is famous for saying, "In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes." He died on February 22, 1987 of complications after gall bladder surgery.

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Andy Warhol Andy Warhola was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1928. He was an American artist and a leader of the pop art movement of the 1960s. When he was eight years old, Andy was sick in bed for several months, and his artistic mother gave him his first drawing lessons.

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Here are 10 facts about the American artist, Andy Warhol.

Andy Warhol was born on 6th August 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

He is known for his pop art and his work focuses of the crossover between celebrity, advertising and artistic expression.

He worked with many forms of media, including: painting, printmaking, photography, drawing, sculpture, film and music. He also started a magazine (called Interview Magazine) and he wrote several books.

He called his studio The Factory and it became a famous meeting place for creative people and celebrities.

Warhol was a hypochondriac and was scared of hospitals and doctors.

In the 1960s he produced a series of paintings of iconic American images and objects, these included: Campbell's Soup cans, dollar bills, Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley and Coca-Cola bottles.

Andy Warhol was shot (and nearly died) on 3rd June 1968. The shooter was Valerie Solanas.

In the 1970s Warhol produced work for many celebrities, including: Mick Jagger, John Lennon and Diana Ross.

He founded the New York Academy of Art in 1979.

Andy Warhol died on 22nd February 1987 following post gallbladder surgery complications. He is buried at St John the Baptist Byzantine Cemetery, next to his parents.

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Here are 10 facts about the American artist, Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol was born on 6th August 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is known for his pop art and his work focuses of the crossover between celebrity, advertising and artistic expression. He worked with many forms of media, including: painting, printmaking, photography, drawing, sculpture, film ...

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Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola 6 August 1928 - 22 February 1987) was part of the pop art movement. He was famous for exploring popular culture in his work, using brands like Coca Cola and Campbell's Soup (which was one of his favourite things to eat).

What exactly is pop art? Find out in this short film....

Warhol liked to use bright colours and silk screening techniques to mass-produce artworks based on photographs of celebrities, like this famous image of Marilyn Monroe.

Screenprinting is a printing process that can create lots of artworks that look the same. The design is separated out into individual colours and the position of each colour is marked out by a stencil on a screen. The screen is a frame of wood with a fine mesh stretched over it. The different coloured inks are pushed through each stencil one at a time and the colours build up to form a picture. Sometimes Warhol would switch colours around and present a group of prints with contrasting colours together.

He didn't just do prints though, he made films, digital artwork, paintings and sculptures.

Warhol's studio was called The Factory, which was a reference to the mass-produced nature of his artworks. He saw art as a product, the same as the clothes you wear and the food you eat. He had a very particular personal style. He had a shock of white hair and was usually seen wearing a lot of black, leather jackets and glasses or sunglasses.

He loved Los Angeles, beauty and plastic, things that were modern and changed quickly. If he was alive now, what do you think would inspire him?

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Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola 6 August 1928 - 22 February 1987) was part of the pop art movement. He was famous for exploring popular culture in his work, using brands like Coca Cola and Campbell's Soup (which was one of his favourite things to eat). What exactly is pop art?

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Kids learn about the biography of Andy Warhol, artist and painter of the Modern Pop Art movement.