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Performed Painting Person Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol was the true master of Pop Art. The former commercial artist used popular culture as the source for his thought provoking works. He produced the first of his paintings depicting enlarged comic strip images such as Popeye and Superman initially for use in a window display.

The American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in 1928. There has for years been quite a bit of confusion to where and when Andy Warhol was born, but according to Andy's two older brothers and the birth certificate that was filed in Pittsburgh in 1945, he was born on August 6th in Pittsburgh. Whether or not this is the day he was born hasn't been proved, but it was on this date he would celebrate his birthday.

Andy Warhol is considered a founder and major figure of the POP ART movement. A graduate of the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1949, he moved to New York City and gained success as a commercial artist. He got his first break in August 1949, when Glamour Magazine wanted him to illustrate a feature entitled "Success is a Job in New York". He continued doing ads and illustrations and by 1955 he was the most successful and imitated commercial artist in New York. In 1960 he produced the first of his paintings depicting enlarged comic strip images such as Popeye and Superman initially for use in a window display. Warhol pioneered the development of the process whereby an enlarged photographic image is transferred to a silk screen that is then placed on a canvas and inked from the back. It was this technique that enabled him to produce the series of mass media images repetitive, yet with slight variations that he began in 1962. These, incorporating such items as Campbell's Soup cans, dollar bills, CocaCola bottles, and the faces of celebrities, can be taken as comments on the banality, harshness, and ambiguity of American culture.

Later in the 1960s, Warhol made a series of experimental films dealing with such ideas as time, boredom, and repetition; they include Sleep (1963), Empire (1964), and The Chelsea Girls (1966). In 1965 he started working with a rockband called "The Velvet Underground" formed by Lou Reed and John Cale. Andy Warhol introduced them to the model and moviestar Nico and she sang on their debut album from 1967 "The Velvet Underground and Nico". Andy would travel around the country, not only with The Velvets, but also with superstar of the year Edie Sedgwick and the lightshow "The Exploding Plastic Inevitable".

Andy Warhol was the true master of Pop Art. The former commercial artist used popular culture as the source for his thought provoking works. Andy Warhol sought the truth in the labels spread al over the world by the mass media. From his legendary 'Campbell's Soup' can to his many portraits: Warhol was a challenging genius who turned the ordinary into the extraordinary. Andy Warhol's paintings are available here. Please purchase on online http://www.etabletop.com

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