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Birth
1928 (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Death
1987 (New York City)
Lived/Active
New York
Self portrait - Self-Portrait © Andy Warhol Foundation
© 2001 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
© 2001 Andy Warhol Foundation / ARS, NY / TM Licensed by Campbell's Soup Co. All rights reserved.
Often Known For
pop-mod multi-images, silk screen
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Andy Warhol, whose name is synonymous with Pop Art, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. He studied art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology from 1945 to 1949 and then went to New York City where he became an illustrator until 1960 when he began making paintings based on comic strip characters such as Popeye, Dick Tracy, and Superman.
He turned from the prevailing abstract-expressionist styles and the emphasis on the artist's emotion to a hard- (showing 500 of 18438 characters). |
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