Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol (b.1928 – 1987) was an American visual artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s and span a variety of media, including painting, silk screening, photography, film, and sculpture.
Some of his best-known works include the silkscreen paintings of Campbell’s Soup Cans and Marilyn Diptych.
Warhol initially pursued a successful career as a commercial illustrator. After exhibiting his work in several galleries in the late 1950s, he began to receive recognition as an influential and controversial artist. His New York studio, The Factory, became a well-known gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons. He promoted a collection of personalities known as Warhol superstars, and is credited with inspiring the widely used expression “15 minutes of fame”.
Warhol died of cardiac arrhythmia in February 1987 at the age of 58 in New York City.
