Andy Warhol
Biography
Andy Warhol, born Andrew Warhola Jr. in Pittsburgh, was an American artist and filmmaker who became a leading figure of pop art. He started out as a commercial illustrator in New York, creating shoe drawings for fashion magazines, before moving into fine art. In the early 1960s he made silkscreen paintings such as Campbell's Soup Can and Marilyn Diptych, which examined advertising, consumerism and celebrity. He later turned to experimental film, directing Blow Job, Empire, Chelsea Girls, Four Stars and Blue Movie, and gathered a shifting group of personalities known as his superstars at the Factory, his studio. He managed the Velvet Underground and staged the Exploding Plastic Inevitable multimedia events. He also started Interview magazine and put on the play Pork, and wrote books including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism. He moved into television and died in 1987.
58years old at death
- Born Pittsburgh
- Died New York City
- Star sign: LeoThe sign runs July 23 to August 22
- Andrew Warhola Jr. (birth name)Also credited as Andrew Warhol, Andrej Varchol, Andrej Warhol, Andrew Warhola and Drella
Movie Career
- Films
- 16
- Career span
- 55 years1968 to 2023
Genres
- Documentary94%, 15 films
- Biography38%, 6 films
- Music25%, 4 films
- Drama6%, 1 film
- History6%, 1 film
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First role
Warhol's first solo exhibition, Fifteen Drawings Based on the Writings of Truman Capote, was organized by gallerist Alexander Iolas at the Hugo Gallery in New York in 1952.
Big break
Warhol's career as a commercial artist began when Glamour art director Tina Fredericks bought a $10 drawing of an orchestra on his second day in New York and commissioned shoe illustrations for the September 1949 issue.
A first
In 1956, one of Warhol's shoe drawings appeared in the Museum of Modern Art's Recent Drawings U.S.A. group exhibition, which was his first museum showing.
Own stunts
Warhol was asked in 1978 to paint a BMW 320i, but the model changed and the car did not qualify for that year's race. He painted the automobile himself rather than having technicians transfer a scale-model design, and reportedly the whole car took him only 23 minutes.
Behind the camera
In 1980, Warhol helped start the New York Academy of Art, a school with a mission of bringing back traditional ways of training artists.
A first
In April 1961, Warhol's first Pop art paintings served as the backdrop for a window display at the New York department store Bonwit Teller.
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