ANDY WARHOL

1928-1987
 Andy Warhol was a leading figure in
the visual art movement known as
pop art
 He worked in a range of media,
including painting, printmaking,
sculpture, film, and music
 Warhol showed early artistic talent
and studied commercial art at the
School of Fine Arts at Carnegie
Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh
 In 1949, he moved to New York City
and began a career in magazine
illustration and advertising
 He began exhibiting his work during
the 1950s
 ADVERTISING

 It was during the 1960s that Warhol began to make

paintings of iconic American products such as
Campbell's Soup Cans and Coca-Cola bottles
 as well as paintings of celebrities such as Marilyn
Monroe
 Elvis Presley
 Elizabeth Taylor
 Warhol produced both comic and serious
works; his subject could be a soup can
or an electric chair.
 Warhol used the same techniques–
silkscreens, reproduced serially, and
often painted with bright colors –
whether he painted celebrities, everyday
objects, car crashes, and disasters.
 A self-portrait by Andy Warhol (1963–
64), which sold in New York at the May
Post-War and Contemporary evening
sale in Christie's, fetched $38.4 million
BEST WORK
 Onthe occasion of Marilyn
Monroe’s suicide in August
1962, Warhol used this
image for his
screenprinting. It was a
publicity shot by Gene
Korman for the film
Niagara, made in 1953.