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Warhol was born in the late 1920 's in Forest City , Pennsylvania . He went to school there until he decided to attend Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh receiving his BA in 1949 . Shortly thereafter Warhol left for New York . It was in New York that Warhol found jobs in advertising were he became the main illustrator for Miller 's Shoes

Warhol 's roots in advertising (i .e . Vogue , Harper 's Bazaar , and Glamour influenced his artistic endeavors . It is one of the most famous of Warhol 's pieces , the 32 cans of

Campbell 's soup . Through the repetition of such commercial materials , Warhol was forcing the viewer to see beyond what had become invisible due to the marketing world he was making the viewer see what their obsession 's faces were like Campbell 's soup was mmm-mmm good , but by being brutalized by the image , consumers were just automatically thinking that Campbell 's soup was what satisfied them . It was Pop Art , familiar for its stance of reproducing in a different manner , commercial desires , and it was with artists such as Warhol , Lichtenstein , and Jasper Johns that the movement had an impact .It was in America 's own obsession with the image , and pop culture that Andy Warhol became the most enigmatic character in the modern art world Prior to his career as an artist Warhol was a commercial artist it was in this line of training that Warhol became possessed with the ideas of the aesthetic found in common objects (i .e . soup cans , posters , images etc . Although most of his found items were easily overlooked because of their banal and pedestrian nature , Warhol made the viewer see something more , or at least , his statement on modern art made the viewer see how mundane life was , and how void of potential those objects were truly

Warhol was also obsessed with death as is prevalent in his electric chairs and his detailed and horrific traffic accidents . In the capturing of these images , however , Warhol further extrapolated from the image , from the emotion , that death itself was also banal because it had been reduced to absurdity by the mass media . It is in the media that Warhol found his niche , his calling as an artist in the media 's over popularization of objects and people , those objects and people ceased to be real in a sense and there were only icons or inanimate objects just for entertainment . What Warhol did was to show the art world , through his famous repetitive art pieces , just how desensitized the media had made society

It is in his Gold Marilyn Monroe that the apex of these media mogul ideas come together . The gold background of the piece is reminiscent of a Byzantine icon , and in the color scheme Warhol extols the tragic personality of Monroe . The off-register color gives the viewer a sense of otherworldliness , or off kilter sensation similar to that of off-color magazines , and in turn , Warhol 's statement is that Monroe...