Twentieth Century Artist of Interest

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol is one of the significant famous personalities of the twentieth century . He is an artist , a film maker , a celebrity and even a businessman . Warhol advanced the Popular art movement in America . He made compelling and controversial art works that yielded praises and even criticisms . Warhol had once said , I 'd prefer to remain a mystery I never like to give my background and , anyway , I make it all up different every time I 'm asked . It 's not just that it 's part of my image not

to tell everything , it 's just that I forget what I said the day before , and I have to make it all up over again (Wrenn Andy Warhol : in his own words

Andy Warhol was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania as the son of Slovakian immigrants . His father was Andrej who was a construction worker who died when he was 13 and his mother was Julia . According to his mother , Warhol suffered three nervous breakdowns in his childhood (Andy Warhol . By 1945 , he entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University ) where he majored in pictorial design After college , Warhol went to New York and started his career in illustration and advertising for several magazines including Vogue Harper 's Bazaar and The New Yorker (Cribbs Andy Warhol : Biography . It was film director Emile de Antonio who encouraged Warhol to start as an independent artist because he considered commercial art as a real form of real art . His fondness for art and commerce gained him several recognitions from established organizations (Andy Warhol

During the 1960 's , many of Andy Warhol 's most famous and iconic images were generated . By adapting various images from popular culture , Warhol created many paintings that remained icons of 20th-century art , such as the Campbell 's Soup Cans , Disasters and Marilyns . In addition to painting , Warhol made several 16mm films which have become underground classics such as Chelsea Girls , Empire and Blow Job (Cribbs Andy Warhol Biography . Most of Warhol 's films were deemed plotless , complex and somewhat pornographic . Though there were scripts , most of the dialogues in his films were improvised by the actors who were usually transvestites , homosexuals and his acquaintances . According to Warhol he never particularly wanted to make simply sex movies , but attempted to show how people can meet other people and what they can do and what they can say each other . Warhol 's gradual withdrawal from films production coincided with his near fatal shooting in 1968 by a female 'factory reject connected with an anti-male hate group (Andy Warhol . More so , in this period , Warhol moved to the Factory ' It was his place at Union Square in New York City where he and his team of hired workers massly produced screen prints of popular culture . This immediately became the hangout venue for artist , musicians , and actors where they expressed their individuality . The Factory also served as a working place where he produced most his masterpieces in...