Marilyn Monroe became a Warhol Star after her death and perhaps is the most famous Warhol painting. A series of different color combinations of the original Monroe photo brought increased fame to Andy Warhol. Campbell’s Soup Cans remain one of the most famous series of Warhol’s art and indeed the most popular. The soup brand [...]
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Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola 1928. Born to Slovak immigrants, he was reared in a working class suburb of Pittsburgh. From an early age, Warhol showed an interest in photography and drawing, attending free classes at Carnegie Institute. The only member of his family to attend college, he entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Melon University) in 1945, where he majored in pictorial design. Upon graduation, Warhol moved to New York with fellow student Philip Pearlstein. He found steady work as a commercial artist working as an illustrator for several magazines including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and The New Yorker. He also did advertising and window displays for retail stores such as Bonwit Teller and I. Miller. Prophetically, his first assignment was for Glamour magazine for an article titled “Success is a Job in New York.”
Throughout the nineteen fifties, Warhol enjoyed a successful career as a commercial artist, winning several commendations from the Art Director’s Club and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. During this period, he shortened his name to “Warhol.” In 1952, the artist had his first solo exhibition at the Hugo Gallery, exhibiting Fifteen Drawings Based on the Writings of Truman Capote. Subsequently, Warhol’s work was exhibited in several venues throughout the fifties including his first group show at The Museum of Modern Art in 1955. In 1953 the artist produced his first illustrated book, A is an Al Continue reading »
Andy Warhol’s Popular PaintingsAndy Warhol was a very successful commercial illustrator. These illustrations consisted mainly of ‘blotted ink’ drawings (or monoprints), a technique which he applied in much of his early art. Although many artists of this period worked in commercial art, most did so discreetly. Andy Warhol was so successful, however, that his profile as an illustrator [...] |
Andy Warhol’s Paperweight PyramidAndy Warhol was known for breaking the rules, harnessing the latest technology to express his ideas, and creating a new movement in Twentieth century art to be studied and imitated for years to come. The Andy Warhol Home Collection is divided into four design categories: Factory, Pop Abstracts, Signature, and Simply Andy. The Factory designs [...] |