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US painter, printmaker, and film-maker, innovator of pop art. Warhol achieved immediate fame with his stencil pictures of Campbell's soup cans and his sculptures of Brillo soap pad boxes (1962). In 1965, he gave up art to manage the rock group The Velvet Underground. He continued to make films, which often have a voyeuristic quality.

Warhol, Andy

From Encyclopedia of American Studies
Artist Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on August 6, 1928, to Carpatho-Rusyn immigrants Andrej and Julia Warhola. His father, a construction worker, died in 1942. Julia Warhola cleaned houses and sold flowers she made of tin. She taught her sons about Catholicism, their cultural heritage, and art. Andy drew and painted throughout childhood and began taking photographs at age nine. Warhol finished high school in 1945, after skipping eleventh grade. With money his father had saved, Warhol attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology (later, Carnegie Mellon University), becoming the family's first college student. Although he struggled in some classes, Warhol frequently exhibited his student work. After graduating in 1949 with a pictorial design degree, he moved to New York City with fellow student Philip Pearlstein. Warhol began his career as a commercial illustrator. He published his first illustration in a 1949 Glamour magazine article and went on to…
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From Great Lives: A Century in Obituaries
Warhol at the opening of his 1978 ica exhibition
Mr Andy Warhol, a key face in the visual arts in the 1960s, who, paradoxically, achieved more fame by what he refrained from doing than by what he did, died yesterday in New York. He is believed to have been 59. Wherever his most famous works may ultimately stand in critical estimation, his place as…
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From Chambers Biographical Dictionary
originally Andrew Warhola 1928-87 US pop artist and film-maker Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, of Czech parents, he worked as a commercial designer before becoming in 1961 a pioneer of Pop Art with colourful reproductions of familiar everyday objects (eg 100 Soup Cans and Green Coca-Cola Bottles , …
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From Culture Wars in America: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices
The painter, photographer, writer, and filmmaker Andy Warhol was a prominent figure in the Pop Art movement beginning in the 1960s. Determined to achieve fame and fortune through commercial art, Warhol mass- produced his works, which focused on food, money, sex, violence, and celebrity. Noted for…
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From Encyclopedia of American Studies
Andy Warhol (left) and Tennessee Williams (right)...
Artist Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on August 6, 1928, to Carpatho-Rusyn immigrants Andrej and Julia Warhola. His father, a construction worker, died in 1942. Julia Warhola cleaned houses and sold flowers she made of tin. She taught her sons about Catholicism, …
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
1928–87, American artist and filmmaker, b. Pittsburgh as Andrew Warhola. The leading exponent of the pop art movement and one of the most influential artists of the late 20th cent., Warhol concentrated on the surface of things, choosing his imagery from the world of commonplace objects such as…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
(born Aug. 6, 1928, Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S.—died Feb. 22, 1987, New York, N.Y.) U.S. artist and filmmaker. The son of Czech immigrants, Warhol graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, in 1949. He then went to New York City, where he worked as a commercial illustrator. Warhol…
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From The Reader's Companion to American History
(1928?-1987), artist. When the most famous image in pop art, Warhol's Campbell's Soup Can , was first exhibited in 1962, a nearby gallery displayed actual soup cans with the sign, “Get the real thing for 29 cents.” Underlying the humor was an acknowledgment that Warhol's work threatened the concept…
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From A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
(6 August 1928–22 February 1987; b. Andrew Warhola) Surely the most audacious of those artists initially classified as POP, Warhol created in the early 1960s representational paintings that, in retrospect, seem designed to violate several earlier rules for “high art.” Originally a commercial artist…
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