Andy Warhol - Biography - IMDb Andy Warhol Jump to: Overview (5) | Mini Bio (2) | Trade Mark (4) | Trivia (22) | Personal Quotes (17) Overview (5) 5' 11" (1.8 m) Mini Bio (2) Andrew Warhol's father, Ondrej, came from the Austria-Hungary Empire (now Slovakia) in 1912, and sent for his mother, Julia Zavacky Warhola, in 1921. His father worked as a construction worker and later as a coal miner. Around some time, the family moved to Pittsburgh. During his teenage years, Andy suffered from several nervous breakdowns. Overcoming this, he graduated from Schenley High School in Pittsburgh in 1945, and enrolled in the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University), graduating in June 1949. During college, he met Philip Pearlstein , a fellow student. After graduation, Andy Warhol (having dropped the letter 'a' from his last name) moved to New York City, and shared an apartment with Pearlstein at St.

Mark's Place off of Avenue A for a couple months. During this time, he moved in and out of several Manhattan apartments. In New York, he met Tina Fredericks , art editor of Glamour Magazine. Warhol's early jobs were doing drawings for Glamour, such as the Success is a Job in New York, and women's shoes. He also drew advertising for various magazines, including Vogue, Harper's Bazzar, book jackets, and holiday greeting cards. During the 1950s, he moved to an apartment on East 75th Street. His mother moved in with him, and Fritizie Miller become his agent. In 1952, his first solo exhibition was held at Hugo Gallery, New York, of drawings to illustrate stories by Truman Capote . He started illustrating books, beginning with Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette. Around 1953-1955, he worked for a theater group on the Lower East Side, and designs sets. It is around that time that he dyed his hair silver. Warhol published several books, including Twenty Five Cats Named Sam, and One Blue Pussy.

In 1956, he traveled around the world with Charles Lisanby , a television-set designer. In April of this year, he was included in his first group exhibition, Recent Drawings USA, held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He began receiving accolades for his work, with the 35th Annual Art Directors Club Award for Distinctive Merit, for an I.Miller shoe advertisement. He published In The Bottom Of My Garden later that year. In 1957, received 36th Annual Art Directors Club Medal and Award of Distinctive Merit, for the I.Miller show advertisements, and Life Magazine published his illustrations for an article, "Crazy Golden Slippers". In 1960, Warhol began to make his first paintings. They were based on comic strips in the likes of Dick Tracy, Popeye, Superman, and two of Coca-Cola bottles. In 1961, using the Dick Tracy comic strip, he designed a window display for Lord & Taylor, at this time, major art galleries around the nation begin noticing his work.

In 1962, Warhol made paintings of dollar bills and Campbell soup cans, and his work was included in an important exhibition of pop art, The New Realists, held at Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. In November of this year, Elanor Ward showed his paintings at Stable Gallery, and the exhibition began a sensation. In 1963, he rented a studio in a firehouse on East 87th Street. He met his assistant, Gerard Malanga , and started making his first film, Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of (1964). Later, he drove to Los Angeles for his second exhibition at the Ferus Gallery. In November of that year, he found a loft at 231 East 47th Street, which became his main studio, The Factory. In December, he began production of Red Jackie, the first of the Jackie series. In 1964, his first solo exhibition in Europe, held at the Galerie Ileana Sonnebend in Paris, featured the Flower series.

He received a commission from architect Philip Johnson to make a mural, entitled Thirteen Most Wanted Men for the New York State Pavilion in the New York World's Fair. In April, he received an Independent Film Award from Film Culture magazine. In November, his first solo exhibition in the US was held at Leo Castelli Gallery. And at this time, he began his self portrait series. In the summer of 1965, Andy Warhol met Paul Morrissey , who became his advisor and collaborator. His first solo museum exhibition was held at the Institute of Contempary Art, at the University of Pennsylvania. During this year, he made a surprise announcement of his retirement from painting, but it was to be short lived. He would resume painting again in 1972. It was around this time that he met Lou Reed , John Cale , Sterling Morrison , and Maureen Tucker (collectively known as The Velvet Underground ), and a German-born model turned chanteuse called Nico . He paired Nico with the Velvets, and they developed a close bond with Warhol. This was an alliance that forever changed the face of world culture.

Warhol produced the group's first album, The Velvet Underground and Nico, which has been called "the most influential record ever" by many critics. Later, a multimedia show developed (called The Exploding Plastic Inevitable), managed, and produced by Warhol, featuring the Velvet Underground. In the summer of 1966, Warhol's film Chelsea Girls (1966) became the first underground film to be shown at a commercial theater. In 1967, Chelsea Girls opened in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and six of his Self Portraits were shown at Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In August of this year, he gave a lecture at various colleges in the Los Angeles area, his persona is so popular that some colleges hire Allen Midgette to impersonate him for lectures. Later, Warhol moved The Factory to 33 Union Square West, and met Fred Hughes , who later became President of Enterprises, and Interview Magazine. In 1968, Warhol's first solo European museum exhibition was held at Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

But later that year on June 3, 1968, Warhol was shot by Valerie Solanas , an ultra-radical and member of the entourage surrounding Warhol. Solanis was the founder of SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Fortunately, Warhol survived the assassination attempt after spending two months in a hospital. This incident is the subject of the film, I Shot Andy Warhol (1996). Afterwards, Andy Warhol dropped out of the filmmaking business, but now and then continued his contribution to film and art. He never emotionally recovered from his brush with death. During the 1970s and 80s, Andy Warhol's status as a media icon skyrocketed, and he used his influence to back many younger artists. He began publishing of Interview magazine, with the first issue being released in fall of 1969. In 1971, his play, entitled Pork, opened at London at the Round House Theatre. He resumed painting in 1972, although it was primarily celebrity portraits. The Factory was moved to 860 Broadway, and in 1975, he bought a house on Lexington Street.

A major retrospective of his work is held in Zurich. In 1976, he did the Skulls, and Hammer and Sickle series. Throughout the late 70s and 80s, a retrospective exhibition was held, as Warhol began work on the Reversals, Retrospectives, and Shadows series. The Myths series, Endangered Species series, and Ads series followed through the early and mid 1980s. On 22 February 1987, a "day of medical infamy", as quoted by one biographer, Andy Warhol died following complications from gall bladder surgery. He was 58 years old. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk> Trade Mark (4) Wore a wig most of the time in public Blond, spiky hair, black leather and white shirts. Always had a camera and a tape recorder whenever he talked to someone. Dark sunglasses Trivia (22) 1984: He and Don Monroe directed music video "Hello Again" for The Cars . He also appeared in it, playing The Bartender. Interred at St.

John the Baptist Catholic Cemetery, Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, USA. In 1990, Lou Reed and John Cale made a CD album called "Songs for Drella" as a tribute to Warhol with 15 songs about Warhol's life. Pictured on a USA 37¢ commemorative postage stamp issued 9 August 2002. Produced The Velvet Underground 's first album. He essentially lent his name to their work and observed them in the recording studio, while Lou Reed and later Tom Wilson (who had worked earlier with Bob Dylan ) mostly called the shots. The cover of the band's first album (with Nico ) was Warhol's design: a banana with a peel that was actually a peelable sticker. Is credited with coining the term "superstar." When guesting on The Love Boat (1977), he was nervous about the experience and turned to his castmate (and muse for the particular episode) Marion Ross , who calmed him down and offered some advice on how to act. Was a frequent guest at the infamous "Studio 54" Avoided the subject of death, except in his paintings (the Disaster series).

He did not attend the funerals of his superstars nor did he attend his mother's funeral when she died in November 1972. After she passed away he continued to give the impression that she was still alive to people who would ask about her. Warhol did not mention his mother's death to any of his close friends. As late as 1976, when friends asked about his mother, Andy said, 'Oh, she's great. But she doesn't get out of bed much." His father, who traveled much on business trips, died when Warhol was 13. Son of immigrants from the town Miková, located in today's northeastern Slovakia. His original name was "Warhola". Warhol's "A: A Novel," published in 1968, is based on 24 hours of tape recordings (24 one-hour tapes) of Ondine speaking. His tape-recorded musings were transcribed and typed up and serve as the basis of the novel, which was disingenuously presented as one day in the life of Ondine. The book is one of the premier artifacts of the Pop art movement/Pop culture.

Warhol followed Ondine around New York City with a tape recorder, recording their conversations. Ondine was addicted to amphetamines and was prone to wild verbal flights that covered many subjects. To type up the tapes, Warhol hired teenage girls, some of whom were barely literate and made many errors. Warhol "edited" the resulting manuscript during a series of concerts given by The Velvet Underground ( Lou Reed is one of the "characters" in the novel), sitting in the rear of the theater in the dark, reading proof sheets with a flashlight. Like James Joyce when confronted with transcription errors made by the French printers/compositors of the first edition of "Ulysses" (1922), Warhol loved the mistakes and decided to keep them in.

He thought the mistakes improved the book as it made it worse, more of a Pop manifesto, and insisted that all the errata be left in the final draft, which he fancied as a Pop "Finnegans Wake." In his later book/memoir "Popism," Warhol explained, "I wanted to do a 'bad book' just the way I'd done 'bad movies' and 'bad art,' because when you do something exactly wrong, you always turn up something." Warhol, the author, refused to filter out the "background noise" or "static," thus preventing the reader from following a coherent narrative thread. The book intentionally is boring, as are many of Warhol's films. Of his films Warhold said that talking about them was more interesting than actually viewing them, and this likely was his intent with "A: A Novel" -- to create an artifact that made people talk about it -- and think. Influenced the movement of 'The New Russian Classicism'. Visited St. Petersburg, Russia and presented his 'tomato cans' to Timur Novikov and Sergei Bugayev . Was among the guests at Madonna 's and Sean Penn 's wedding. Godfather of Bijou Phillips .

An astute businessman in the art world, he left an estate worth $500 million when he died. Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 873-876. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999. He bequeathed his wig to singer David Bowie , who later wore it to portray Warhol in Basquiat (1996). Bowie had written the song "Andy Warhol" in tribute to him, which featured on his 1971 album "Hunky Dory". His nephew, James Warhola, wrote and illustrated a children's book titled "Uncle Andy's." It is about a little boy who visits his famous uncle in New York City. His brother owned a junkyard in upstate New York. Periodically his brother would bring him odd scraps of junk, which Warhol would use in his art. Was good friends with Charles Lisanby . Gore Vidal once described Andy Warhol as "The only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60".

Personal Quotes (17) Andy Warhol - Painter, Filmmaker - Biography.com Andy Warhol Illustrator Andy Warhol was one of the most prolific and popular artists of his time, using both avant-garde and highly commercial sensibilities. IN THESE GROUPS » quotes “I'd prefer to remain a mystery. I never give my background, and, anyway, I make it all up different every time I'm asked.” “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” “It would be glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.” “My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.” “Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?” “In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” “I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses it's meaning.” “Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore. It was the whole reason for going.” “I love going out every night.

It's so exciting.” “The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting.” “I am a deeply superficial person.” Andy Warhol Andy Warhol - Mini Biography (TV-14; 3:34) Andy Warhol was the superstar of the Pop Art movement. His "Campbell's Soup Cans" and "Gold Marilyn Monroe" made him famous worldwide, and his studio, known as "The Factory," became a magnet for artists of the 60s counterculture. Synopsis 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 movements. 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. Warhol died on February 22, 1987, in New York City. Early Life 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 Byzantine 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. At the age of 8, Warhol contracted Chorea—also known as St. Vitus's Dance—a rare and sometimes fatal disease of the nervous system that left him bedridden for several months. It was during these months, while Warhol was sick in bed, that his mother, herself a skillful artist, gave him his first drawing lessons. Drawing soon became Warhol's favorite childhood pastime. He was also an avid fan of the movies, and when his mother bought him a camera at the age of 9 he took up photography as well, developing film in a makeshift darkroom he set up in their basement. 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 1942, at the age of 14, Warhol again suffered a tragedy when his father passed away from a jaundiced liver.

Warhol was so upset that he could not attend his father's funeral, and he hid under his bed throughout the wake. Warhol's father had recognized his son's artistic talents, and in his will he dictated that his life savings go toward Warhol's college education. That same year, Warhol began at Schenley High School, and upon graduating, in 1945, he enrolled at the Carnegie Institute for Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) to study pictorial design. Artistic Career When he graduated from college with his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1949, Warhol moved to New York City to pursue a career as a commercial artist. It was also at this time that he dropped the "a" at the end of his last name to become Andy Warhol. He landed a job with Glamour magazine in September, and went on to become one of the most successful commercial artists of the 1950s. He won frequent awards for his uniquely whimsical style, using his own blotted line technique and rubber stamps to create his drawings.

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." As Warhol himself put it, "Once you 'got' pop, you could never see a sign the same way again. And once you thought pop, you could never see America the same way again." 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 attended by the city's wealthiest socialites and celebrities, including musician Lou Reed, who paid tribute to the hustlers and transvestites he'd met at The Factory with his hit song "Walk on the Wild Side"—the verses of which contain descriptions of individuals who were fixtures at the legendary studio/warehouse in the '60s, including Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, "Little Joe" Dallesandro, "Sugar Plum Fairy" Joe Campbell and Jackie Curtis. (Warhol was a friend of Reed's and managed Reed's band, the Velvet Underground.) Warhol, who clearly relished his celebrity, became a fixture at infamous New York City nightclubs like Studio 54 and Max's Kansas City.

Commenting on celebrity fixation—his own and that of the public at large—Warhol observed, "more than anything people just want stars." He also branched out in new directions, publishing his first book, Andy Warhol's Index, in 1967. In 1968, however, Warhol's thriving career almost ended. He was shot by Valerie Solanas, an aspiring writer and radical feminist, on June 3. Warhol was seriously wounded in this attack. Solanas had appeared in one of Warhol's films and was reportedly upset with him over his refusal to use a script she had written. After the shooting, Solanas was arrested and later pleaded guilty to the crime. Warhol spent weeks in a New York hospital recovering from his injuries. In the 1970s, Warhol continued to explore other forms of media. He published such books as The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) and Exposures. Warhol also experimented extensively with video art, producing more than 60 films during his career.

Some of his most famous films include Sleep, which depicts poet John Giorno sleeping for six hours, and Eat, which shows a man eating a mushroom for 45 minutes. Warhol also worked in sculpture and photography, and in the 1980s, he moved into television, hosting Andy Warhol's TV and Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes on MTV. Death and Legacy Warhol died on February 22, 1987, at the age of 58. His personal life has been the subject of much debate and consideration. He is widely believed to have been a gay man, and his art was often infused with homoerotic imagery and motifs. However, he claimed that he remained a virgin for his entire life. Warhol's life and work simultaneously satirized and celebrated materiality and celebrity. On the one hand, his paintings of distorted brand images and celebrity faces could be read as a critique of what he viewed as a culture obsessed with money and celebrity. On the other hand, Warhol's focus on consumer goods and pop-culture icons, as well as his own taste for money and fame, suggest a life in celebration of the very aspects of American culture that his work criticized.

Warhol spoke to this apparent contradiction between his life and work in his book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, writing that "making money is art and working is art, and good business is the best art." Related Videos Fact Check We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us ! Citation Information Andy Warhol is born - Aug 06, 1928 - HISTORY.com Andy Warhol is born Publisher A+E Networks Andy Warhol, one of the most influential artists of the latter part of the 20th century, is born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A frail and diminutive man with a shock of silver-blond hair, Warhol was a major pioneer of the pop art movement of the 1960s but later outgrew that role to become a cultural icon. Warhol was the son of immigrants from Czechoslovakia, and his father was a coal miner. For years, there was confusion as to his exact date and place of birth because Warhol gave conflicting accounts of these details, probably out of embarrassment of his provincial origins. “I’d prefer to remain a mystery,” he once said.

“I never give my background and, anyway, I make it all up different every time I’m asked.” He enrolled in the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) and graduated with a degree in pictorial design in 1949. That year, he moved to New York City, where he found work as a commercial illustrator. After being incorrectly credited as “Warhol” under an early published drawing, he decided to permanently remove the “a” from his last name. He began painting in the late 1950s and took literally the advice of an art teacher who said he should paint the things he liked. He liked ordinary things, such as comic strips, canned soup, and soft drinks, and so he painted them. In 1962, he received notoriety in the art world when his paintings of Campbell’s soup cans, Coca-Cola bottles, and wooden replicas of Brillo soap-pad boxes were exhibited in Los Angeles and New York. In 1963, he dispensed with the paintbrush and began mass-producing images of consumer goods and celebrities like Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy.

These prints, accomplished through his use of a silk-screen technique, displayed multiple versions of the same image in garish colors and became his trademark. He was hailed as the leader of the pop art movement, in which Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and others depicted “popular” images such as a soup can or comic strip as a means of fusing high and low culture and commenting on both. Although shy and soft-spoken, Warhol attracted dozens of followers who were anything but. This mob of underground artists, social curiosities, and hangers-on operated out of the “Factory,” Warhol’s silver-painted studio in Manhattan. In the mid-1960s, Warhol began making experimental films, employing his friends as actors and billing them as “superstars.” Some of his films were monumental essays on boredom, such as the eight-hour continuous shot of the Empire State Building in Empire (1964), and others were gritty representations of underground life, like The Chelsea Girls (1966). He also organized multimedia events such as “The Exploding Plastic Inevitable” and sponsored the influential rock group the Velvet Underground.

In 1968, Warhol was shot and nearly killed by Valerie Solanis, a follower who claimed he was “exercising too much influence” over her life. After more than a year of recuperation from his wounds, Warhol returned to his career and founded Interview magazine, a publication centered on his fascination with the cult of celebrity. He became a fixture on the fashion and jet-set social scenes and was famous for pithy cultural observations like, “In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” Meanwhile, he continued to produce commercially successful silk-screen prints of entertainment and political figures. In the 1980s, after a period of relative quiet in his career, he returned to the contemporary art scene as a mentor and friend to a new generation of artists, including Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. With the rise of postmodern art, he came to be regarded as an archetypal role model by many young artists. On February 22, 1987, he died in the hospital of a heart attack shortly after a gall bladder operation.

In 1994, the Andy Warhol Museum, the largest single-artist museum in the United States, opened in Pittsburgh. Related Videos Andy Warhol Horoscope by Date of Birth | Horoscope of Andy Warhol Artist About Andy Warhol Andy Warhol Horoscope Andy Warhol was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. Read more on about Andy Warhol horoscope Andy Warhol Birth Chart/ Kundli/ Birth Horoscope A birth chart (also known as kundli, janma kundali, or horoscope) is a map of heaven at the time of birth. Andy Warhol's birth chart will show you Andy Warhol's planetary positions, dasa, rasi chart, and zodiac sign etc. It will also allow you to open Andy Warhol's detailed horoscope in "AstroSage Cloud" for research and analysis. The Andy Warhol Family Album - Warhol's Biography Andy Warhol 1928-1987 Early Life Andy Warhol (Andrew Warhola) was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 6, 1928.

His parents, Julia and Ondrej Warhola were Carpatho-Rusyns who immigrated from what is now known as eastern Slovakia in the early 1920's. Andy was the youngest of three brothers. He grew up during the Great Depression in the urban surroundings of a smoky industrial city. At an early age he showed a wonderful talent for drawing. Due to an illness at the age of 6 he was confined to bed; his mother and brothers would entertain him for hours by showing him how to draw, trace and print images. Andy loved to draw throughout his childhood. He attended Holmes Elementary School and Schenley High School and graduated at the young age of 16 in 1945, finishing 51st in his class of 278 graduates. When Andy’s father died in 1942, his main wish was that Andy continue his education to college. In 1945, Andy was accepted at Carnegie Institute of Technology (presently known as Carnegie-Mellon University). He would be the first of his family to ever go beyond high school.

He almost failed his first year, but a sympathetic professor provided him with another chance by allowing him to enroll in a summer class. During that time, Andy helped his oldest brother, Paul, huckster fruit and vegetables from a truck. Every opportunity Andy had he would do quick, on-the-spot sketches of the customers. These sketches not only helped him to be readmitted but they also won him a small scholarship. During another summer break, he worked at a prestigious department store creating window displays. It was there that he was introduced to the world of high fashion, which would later influence his interest in becoming an illustrator. Carnegie Tech nurtured Andy’s keen sense of design and ability to create visually. He quickly became popular among his classmates for his unique solutions. One professor who was displeased with his non-conformity said that, “Andy Warhola was last on the list to amount to anything!” But another teacher said he was “the only student that had a product to sell.” Upon graduation in 1949, Andy and fellow classmate and artist Philip Pearlstein boarded an overnight train to New York City to pursue the world of art.

Illustrator 1950s Though he started to drop the ‘a’ from his name occasionally during his college days in Pittsburgh, he made it more official by signing his first commissioned illustrations, ‘Andy Warhol.’ For many years there has been much speculation regarding just why he changed his name but it simply proved easier to say. With his portfolio of samples Andy quickly received illustration work from all of the major fashion magazines, including Glamour, Vogue, and Harpers Bazaar. Andy’s “blotted line” technique and his superb draftsmanship caught the eyes of numerous art directors. Throughout the 1950s he was prolific in illustrating fashion ads, books, record albums and many other promotional items. He also worked to create innovative advertisements for I.Miller, a popular shoe company. The advertising world of the 1950s groomed him well for his venture into the art world of the 60s. Fine Artist 1960s Following a decade of enormous success as an illustrator, Warhol looked toward Fine Art as a larger challenge. In 1960 he purchased a four-story townhouse and experimented with using advertising and comic strip imagery as his Art.

The subject matter was untraditional and unique at the time. These early Pop paintings had a loose, unfinished look. Over the next several months his painting style would evolve into being more flat and graphic. One consistent aspect, though, was that the images were known to everyone in everyday life. In April, 1961 Warhol had his first opportunity to show his new art. He designed a fashion window at Bonwit Teller’s Department Store that used five of his paintings as backdrops for the dressed mannequins. Throughout 1961 Warhol continued trying different techniques and added to his repertoire of popular imagery. The Campbell's soup can became his primary subject and gained him his greatest notoriety. He and several other artists working on similar themes but in different styles were linked together in a new art movement called Pop Art. On July 9,1962 Warhol had his initial major exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. Magazines such as Time, Life and Newsweek ran articles about the show. Today, the complete set of 32 soup can paintings from that exhibit can be seen at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Also in 1962, Warhol discovered that the silkscreen process was the perfect method to repeat his images. It was an extension of earlier print methods that he had utilized in his days as an illustrator. He worked incessantly and filled his townhouse with many canvases. To paint larger works he rented a studio and hired an assistant named Gerard Malanga. Warhol continued to produce many major works. The early Sixties was his most creative period. In 1963, he began to experiment as a filmmaker. He viewed film as another medium to push the limits of his creativity. Like his paintings, his “underground” art films caused quite a stir in the art world by their strange unconventional boldness. The word “Superstar” originated with the women of his films such as Viva, Ultraviolet, and Edie; his studio in midtown New York where it was all happening became well-known as “The Factory.” In 1968 Andy Warhol was shot by Valerie Solanis, an unstable individual who visited The Factory. He was in very critical condition for several days but slowly recovered. This traumatic event marked a major turning point in Warhol’s life.

Post-Pop Period 1970’s-1980’s In the following years, The Factory changed considerably. It was no longer the open, free-flowing mecca that it had been in the previous years. Gerard Malanga and Billy Name, two important studio assistants, left for other pursuits. With Paul Morrissey as director, filmmaking became less experimental and more commercial. Warhol’s painting was less risk-oriented and therefore did not shake the art world as it had in the 60s. The important accomplishment during this period was Warhol’s reinvention of the society portrait; it now became the primary focus of his painting. In 1969 Warhol also began a magazine called Interview which grew in circulation and required much of his time. Warhol became a part of New York’s “Jet Set” and loved attending gatherings with celebrities. He documented such events with his camera and tape recorder. During this time, Warhol also stated his most famous quote which was “in the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.” Warhol was a passionate collector his entire life, viewing beauty and art in such everyday objects as cookie jars, toys, jewelry, watches, and antiques.

He also collected Native American artifacts, early arcade equipment including carousel horses and many other artists’ work. In 1987 Warhol was hospitalized to have an infected gall bladder removed. Though the routine operation was successful, he died mysteriously during the early morning of February 22, 1987. He was 58 years old. The Warhol Foundation for the Arts was established from his estate and in 1994 the Warhol Museum opened in his childhood City of Pittsburgh. It houses the largest collection of his artwork. Andy Warhol was an artist, filmmaker, photographer, author, editor, and cultural icon. In the years since his untimely death, his importance has grown to stratospheric proportions. He is now regarded as one of the most major artists of the Twentieth Century. How did Andy Warhol Die? How did Andy Warhol Die? Beatles Memorabilia Andy Warhol's Death Andy Warhol died in New York City at 6:32 a.m. on February 22, 1987. According to news reports, he had been making good recovery from a routine gallbladder surgery at New York Hospital before dying in his sleep from a sudden heart attack.

The hospital staff had failed to adequately monitor his condition and overloaded him with fluids after his operation, causing him to suffer from a fatal case of water intoxication, which prompted Warhol's lawyers to sue the hospital for negligence. Prior to his diagnosis and operation, Warhol delayed having his recurring gallbladder problems checked, as he was afraid to enter hospitals and see doctors. Warhol's body was taken back to Pittsburgh by his brothers for burial. The wake was at Thomas P. Kunsak Funeral Home and was an open-coffin ceremony. He was holding a small prayer book and a red rose. The funeral liturgy was held at the Holy Ghost Byzantine Catholic Church on Pittsburgh's North Side. The eulogy was given by Monsignor Peter Tay. Fellow artist Yoko Ono also made an appearance. The coffin was covered with white roses and asparagus ferns. Warhol's grave at St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery.After the liturgy, the coffin was driven to St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery in Bethel Park, a south suburb of Pittsburgh. At the grave, the priest said a brief prayer and sprinkled holy water on the casket.

Before the coffin was lowered, Paige Powell dropped a copy of Interview magazine, an Interview t-shirt, and a bottle of the Estee Lauder perfume "Beautiful" into the grave. Warhol was buried next to his mother and father. Weeks later a memorial service was held in Manhattan for Warhol on April 1, 1987 at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York. Warhol had so many possessions that it took Sotheby's nine days to auction his estate after his death; the auction grossed more than US$20 million. His total estate was worth considerably more, in no small part due to shrewd investments over the years. On the twentieth anniversary of his death The Gershwin Hotel in New York City held a week-long series of events commemorating Warhol's art and his superstars. There was an award ceremony, a fashion show, and Blondie performed at the closing party. At the same time, The Carrozzini von Buhler Gallery in New York City held an exhibit titled, Andy Warhol: In His Wake.

The exhibit featured the art of Warhol's superstars Ultra Violet, Billy Name, Taylor Mead, and Ivy Nicholson as well as art by a younger generation of artists who have been inspired by Warhol. One interactive sculpture in the exhibit, The Great Warhola, by Cynthia von Buhler, depicted Warhol as an arcade fortune-telling machine. The gallery was transformed to look like Warhol's silver factory. Factory Girl, a film about the life of Edie Sedgwick, starring Sienna Miller and Hayden Christensen, was also released one week before the anniversary of Warhol's death.

Andy Warhol's Forgotten Floppy Disk Art Has Been Found | Motherboard Andy Warhol's Forgotten Floppy Disk Art Has Been Found Written by April 24, 2014 // 11:00 AM EDT Copy This URL Image: Andy Warhol, Andy2, 1985, ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visuals Arts, Inc., courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum The world got more Warhols this week, as the 20th century American artist's most futuristic works—by 1985 standards—have been recovered from floppy disks and shared by the Andy Warhol Museum. So strongly associated with the oft-mythologized 1960s, those outside of the art world can be forgiven for forgetting that Andy Warhol lived and kept working until 1987. With a bit of scrutiny, Warhol emerges as a total 80s dude, too: he did commercials for Braniff airlines with Sonny Liston; he showed up in a room with Hulk Hogan, Rowdy Roddy Piper, and Mr. T at Wrestlemania; and now it's clear that he was an early adopter of the personal computer as an artistic medium.

Warhol had been gifted a Commodore Amiga in order to demonstrate the computer’s graphic arts capabilities. There's a video of him “painting” Blondie's Debbie Harry , and that piece had been part of the Warhol collection for years. But ever since the museum acquired the rest of Warhol's disks in 1994 as well as his two Amiga 1000 computers, their contents were inaccessible due to the obsolete file format and aging hardware. It took a nagging interest from artist Cory Arcangel, the help of the Andy Warhol Museum, Carnegie Mellon's Golan Levin, and the Carnegie Mellon Computer Club, to bring the images back from the digital depths. Arcangel was an old friend of Levin's. "When he had the idea to do the project, he first secured permission from the Warhol Museum to see if it would be possible to look at the computer," Levin explained via email. "Then he came to visit my lab, and he asked me if I knew anyone with this kind of expertise.

I immediately connected him to the CMU Computer Club, and provided those folks with a grant so that they could purchase the necessary bits and bobs to do the work." Image: Commodore Amiga computer equipment used by Andy Warhol 1985-86, courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum, used with permission. If you've ever had difficulty opening, say, a .docx file , you can imagine the trouble inherent in retrieving files off of floppy disks for computers that time has rendered unusable. I called up Keith A. Bare II, of the Carnegie Mellon Computer Club, who was sort of the “Amiga guru” on the project, and asked about the digital excavation of the works from floppy disk to a modern PC. The process involved using their own equipment, including the “KryoFlux,” which is designed to let modern PCs interface with obsolete formats. Using the KryoFlux, the computer club was able to take disk image files and run them using an Amiga emulator— E-UAE, if you're curious . Initially it seemed like it was a fool's errand. “When we first went to the museum just to see what they had, we weren't very optimistic at that point,” Bare said.

“Nearly all of the floppies looked like they were system software or other forms of software. Having briefly lived in the era of floppies, I remember everyone had 50 or so floppies with handwritten labels saying that it had some file on it. We didn't see that from Warhol. “But as it turns out, most of the software he was using wouldn't allow him to save onto other floppy disks, so he just left it on the software.” Image: Andy Warhol, Campbell’s, 1985, ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visuals Arts, Inc., courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum, used with permission. And this is where the .pic files were uncovered, with unmistakably Warholian names: “campbells.pic,” “marilyn1.pic,” etc. The club uncovered 28 heretofore unseen images that the Warhol Museum is fairly certain were done by the man himself, 11 of which were signed.

Warhol of course always seemed like he'd be a natural for digital art: it's endlessly reproducible, it's new and experimental, and one can imagine his wry take on the “everyone's face is everywhere” ubiquity that computers facilitate. Image: Andy Warhol, Venus, 1985, ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visuals Arts, Inc., courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum, used with permission. Just as the new medium gave birth to new art, it also gives birth to new scholarship: digital art history, and digital archeology. The new philosophical questions that accompany the new technical ones are at least partially why the computer club's Michael Dille was so excited to get the fruits of their labor into the world. “I'm very excited that our efforts are finally seeing the light of day,” Dille told me in an email. “Because we're blazing new trails with such data recovery, there really doesn't exist much in the way of precedent here. Intellectual ownership, authentication, assurance of the works' integrity, archival format, proper exhibition medium...

these are just some of the many questions we've had to answer and are still answering.” In addition to adding to the Warhol canon, the uncovering has yielded a documentary Trapped: Andy Warhol’s Amiga Experiments , which will be screened in the Carnegie Lecture Hall in Pittsburgh on May 10, will be available online May 12. Andy Warhol | Who is Andy Warhol | Andy Warhol Biography South About Andy Warhol / Who is Andy Warhol ? Andy Warhol was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. Andy Warhol's Character horoscope Andy Warhol's outstanding character is that of sympathy, mingled with hospitality. Andy Warhol have a great urge to make others a little happier for having met Andy Warhol No higher quality could be possessed than this but it is one that may be carried to excess.

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Hypersensitive, many of Andy Warhol have inferiority complexes, feeling slighted by taking the most unrelated incident as personal insult. It is important that Andy Warhol do not indulge in drugs or alcohol, for this adds to Andy Warhol's unclarity. Andy Warhol be honest with yourself and others, and attempt to be as realistic as possible, for Andy Warhol tend toward escapism. Music, colours and nature are very positive in smoothing Andy Warhol's overly sensitive being. Andy Warhol's Life Style horoscope Andy Warhol is motivated to enhance Andy Warhol's sex life. If other factors make Andy Warhol feel that material possessions are a requirement, Andy Warhol is motivated to gain much money. Whatever Andy Warhol's goals, however, sex is the motivating factor. Recognise this, and rather than fight it, use it to best advantage. Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film (PG) Release Date: September 1st thru 14th, 2006 (Film Forum) by Steeplechase Films. *Admission is free on day of show. Tickets available starting each day at 12:30 PM.

Maximum 2 tickets per person.* Directed by Ric Burns. BASIC PREMISE: A documentary about the life of Andy Warhol, a controversial artist from the 20th Century. ENTERTAINMENT VALUE: Andy Warhol presents a linear, coherent and detailed biography of Andy Warhol from his birth in 1928 until his death in 1987. His passion for art began as a teenager living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his loving and supporting mother and father. At the age of 20, he made a smart move from Pittsburgh to New York City in order to pursue his dreams of becoming a famous artist. His first stint was as a commercial illustrator for Glamour Magazine. At this point, his name was still Andy Warhola, but when a typesetter omitted the �A�, he didn�t correct it and lived with the name Andy Warhol for the rest of his life. His illustrated art impressed many people, especially with his use of �blotted lines� which gave it a printed, awkward feel. Soon began his rise to fame as the leader of the Pop Art Movement who wore a grey wig.

Director Ric Burns does an excellent job of synthesizing footage from Warhol�s life and fascinating interviews with curators and biographers. Biographer John Richardson states that Warhol was an observer rather than a participator in life. He reflects life rather than projecting it. Not surprisingly, he always wanted to be taken seriously which eventually happened with the help of curator Henry Geldzahler. Not everyone understood the genius of Warhol�s work at the time�some critics didn�t appreciate him taking a found image (i.e. of Marilyn Monroe or of Campbell soup cans) and altering it by enlarging it, tracing it and/or coloring it. Ric Burns wisely maintains focus on Warhol�s life rather than going into depth about whether or not his work should be considered art. He also doesn�t spend too much time explaining how he was shot by Valerie Solanis, the founder and sole member of the Society for Cutting Up Men. By the end of this 4 hour-long documentary, you�ll understand how Warhol was an influential artist and an obscure filmmaker who shouldn�t be forgotten.

Andy Warhol has a wealth of information about Warhol and gives you a fascinating, humanizing glimpse into his private life which you can�t get from just reading a textbook about him. SPIRITUAL VALUE: It�s illuminating to know that Warhol�s private life was different from his public image. He was a bit modest about himself in private. His reasons for wanting to become successful are very basic: he wanted to be able to support himself financially while still doing what he loves. Any other path in life would not be worth living. Overall, the story of his life feels inspirational because he had a dream along with talent and pursued it until he achieved fame and fortune. Not everyone liked him or understood him, but they couldn�t stop him from continuing to express himself through art�even after his near-death experience from being shot by Valerie Solanis. INSULT TO YOUR INTELLIGENCE: None. NUMBER OF TIMES I CHECKED MY WATCH: 0 IN A NUTSHELL: Fascinating, illuminating and inspirational. RECOMMENDED WAY TO WATCH: Movie Theater (1st Run)

Question: What was art-world guru Andy Warhol's name at birth?
Answer: Andrew Warhola