Andy Warhol

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Andy Warhol was born on August 6, 1928 and died on February 22, 1987. Andy Warhol would have been 58 years old at the time of death or 86 years old today.

Well... take a look at the painting... I think it might be a bit obvious.

Campbell's Soup

His paintings were sometimes oil paint on canvas, sometimes polymer paint (acrylic) on canvas.

Warhol frequently used silk-screening; his later drawings were traced from slide projections. At the height of his fame as a painter, Warhol had several assistants who produced his silk-screen multiples, following his directions to make different versions and variations.

In a quote Warhol gives information on his attitude in making his art; it makes clear that he made his art in a direct and spontaneous way:

"When I have to think about it, I know the picture is wrong. And sizing is a form of thinking and coloring is too. My instinct about painting says, 'If you don't think about it, it's right'. As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And the more you decide about, the more wrong it gets. Some people, they paint abstract, so they sit there thinking about it because their thinking makes them feel they're doing something. But my thinking never makes me feel I'm doing anything."

from "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B and Back again)", Andy Warhol, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York 1975, p. 149

Andy Warhol was bed-ridden most of the time as a child since he suffered from Chorea a 'movement disorder' ,so he drew,listened to the radio and collected pictures of movie stars around his bed.

Like many of his paintings it was thought ridiculous by some and admired by some.

Andy Warhol wanted to show the growth of consumerism and commericalism during the late Twentith Century. He would reproduce images on silk screens with different colors and sell them to the degeneralized public for high prices. In reference to Marilyn, she was one of the most iconic women of the 1950s and 1960s, so much so that many actresses in Hollywood at the time tried to immulate her, and she became the central idea of beauty. So Warhol took this massly believed conception and created many prints of the starlet, including the famed turquoise "Marilyn".

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Andy Warhol's high school, Schenley High School, closed its doors permanently on June 30, 2008. On June 25th, the school's board voted 5-4 to close the Pittsburgh school, rejecting a proposal to let voters decide in a referendum. In addition to Andy Warhol, jazz musician George Benson also attended the school.

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By the way - these are paintings, not drawings.

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He graduated from high school and studied commercial art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. Warhol graduated in 1949

Only Andy Warhol can answear that! But as a see that he was mainly attracted to the beautiful, the troubled and children basically anyone in these three categories.

If Andy Warhol lived, in my opinion, he would paint

beautiful models such as Ann Ward (beautiful, "odd/unique" beauty from Americas Next Stop Model)

People and their "insides" -I think by now Andy would expand his scenery and start painting people with illnesses, as an attempt to raise awareness and stop/ decrease the social stigma of eating disorders, schizophrenia, depression

Religious art- Popes, Priest that have done wrong- I do not now if it is widely known but one book that I was reading for a presentation stated Andy was very religious, he attented church weekly. This was not associted with his public persona. I think Mr. Warhol would have fun dwelling on the corruption and disillution one must experience when the law hurts man. During his later years he did various reproductions of "The Last Supper".

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For most of his life in New York City.

because coca-cola was a big thing when it started being sold in a bottle. He also painted a can of tomato soup for the same reason. It was a very important part of history to be able to buy canned foods.

Too many!!

When I was reading his diary it talked about all his friends and there was way to many to count or name. He was vary sociable !!!

Some include: Jim Randall, Barbara Walter, Andrew Wyeth, and GLen Campbell, and a ton more including a lot of starz !!!

He influenced it by being the main founder in the revolution called, "Pop Art".

by the way that he colors it. you can also tell it's his because it looks like he painted write over a real picture of what he paints or draws.

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At his Factory in New York City.