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Andy Warhol, born in Pittsburgh in 1928, was an American artist and filmmaker. He is the figure head of the Pop art movement of the 1960s. Warhol brought focus to the banality of the commercial culture of the United States - creating and then pushing the artist envelope of his time. He became a worldwide celebrity, befriending and doing business with people in the highest socialranks.

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"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."

– Andy Warhol
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Life

(born August 6, 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.–died February 22, 1987, New York, New York) American artist and filmmaker, an initiator and leading exponent of the Pop art movement ofthe 1960s whose mass-produced art apotheosized the supposed banality of the commercial culture of the United States. An adroit self-publicist, he projected a concept of the artist as an impersonal, even vacuous, figure who is nevertheless a successful celebrity, businessman, and social climber.

The son of Czechoslovak immigrants, Warhol graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology,Pittsburgh, with a degree in pictorial design in 1949. He then went to New York City, where he worked as a commercial illustrator for about a decade. Warhol began painting in the late 1950s and received sudden notoriety in 1962, when he exhibited paintings of Campbell's soup cans, Coca-Cola bottles, and wooden replicas of Brillo soap pad boxes. By 1963 he was mass-producing these purposely banalimages of consumer goods by means of photographic silk screen prints, and he then began printing endless variations of portraits of celebrities in garish colours. The silk screen technique was ideally suited to Warhol, for the repeated image was reduced to an insipid and dehumanized cultural icon that reflected both the supposed emptiness of American material culture and the artist's emotionalnoninvolvement with the practice of his art. Warhol's work placed him in the forefront of the emerging Pop art movement in America.

As the 1960s progressed, Warhol devoted more of his energy to filmmaking. Usually classed as underground films, such motion pictures of his as The Chelsea Girls (1966), Eat (1963), My Hustler (1965), and Blue Movie (1969) are known for their inventive eroticism, plotlessboredom, and inordinate length (up to 25 hours). In 1968 Warhol was shot and nearly killed by one of his would-be followers, a member of his assemblage of underground film and rock music stars, assorted hangers-on, and social curiosities. Warhol had by this time become a well-known fixture on the fashion and avant-garde art scene and was an influential celebrity in his own right. Throughout the1970s and until his death he continued to produce prints depicting political and Hollywood celebrities, and he involved himself in a wide range of advertising illustrations and other commercial art projects. Histalic;">The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, published in 1975, was followed by Portraits of the Seventies (1979) and Andy Warhol's Exposures (Andrew Warhola (6 de agosto de 1928, Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania - 22 de febrero de 1987, New York), conocido como Andy Warhol, fue un artista, pintor y cineasta estadounidense desempeñando un papel crucial en el nacimiento y desarrollo del pop art.

Frases de Andy Warhol

Toda pintura es un hecho: las pinturas están cargadas con su propia presencia.
El arte comercial es mucho mejor que el arte por el arte.
En el futuro todo el mundo será famosodurante quince minutos. Todo el mundo debería tener derecho a 15 minutos de gloria.
En los años ochenta va a haber cada quince minutos un nuevo futuro.
La inspiración es la televisión.
No creo en la muerte porque uno no está presente para saber que, en efecto, ha ocurrido.
Un artista es alguien que produce cosas que la gente no necesita tener pero que él, por alguna razón, piensa que sería...