“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes.” Andy Warhol

Andy was born in August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh as the son of Slovak immigrants. His original name was Andrew Warhola. His father was as a construction worker and died in an accident when Andy was 13 years old. Andy (the youngest) with his brother, and mother, Julia. Andy’s boyhood home in Pittsburg, PA.

 He showed an early talent in drawing and painting  He studied commercial art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh  He went to New York where he worked as an illustrator for magazines like Vogue and Harper's Bazaar and for commercial advertising  Warhol became one of New York's most sought of and successful commercial illustrators.  He made a simple transition from producing work for ads to producing ads ironically as art, in what became known as Pop Art

 Warhol concentrated on the surface of things, choosing his imagery from the world of commonplace objects such as dollar bills, soup cans, soft-drink bottles, and soap-pad boxes.  He is variously credited with ridiculing and celebrating American middle-class values by erasing the distinction between popular and high culture.  Monotony and repetition became the hallmarks of his multi-image, mass-produced silk-screen paintings: for many of these, such as the portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Jacqueline Kennedy, he employed newspaper photographs.  SCUM – Society for Cutting Up Men

In the sixties Warhol started painting daily objects of mass production like Campbell Soup cans and Coke bottles. Soon he became a famous figure in the New York art scene. From 1962 on he started making silkscreen prints of famous personalities like Marilyn Monroe or Elizabeth Taylor.

A Boy For Meg

Gee merrie shoes

Gee merrie Shoe BW

Sam The Cat

Andy Warhol Campbell sSoup, 1964

ANDY WARHOL (American, ) 100 Cans, 1962 Oil on canvas, 72 x 52” (182.9 x cm.) Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1963

Before and After, c.1960

Andy Warhol Self-Portrait, 1986

Muhammad Ali

Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, 1967

One Hundred Marilyns

Andy Warhol Double Elvis Aaron Presley, 1963 Poster

Ingrid with Hat

JUDY GARLAND (ANDY WARHOL) 1979 Judy Garland Andy Warhol

Liza Minelli Andy Warhol

Dolly Parton Andy Warhol

Debbie Harry Andy Warhol

Dennis Hopper Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol Jackie Triptych

Andy Warhol, Mao (1973).

Sixteen Jackies, c.1964

10 Marilyns, 1967

Lips

Diamond Dust Shoes, 1980 (Lilac, Blue, Green)

Jackie, 1964

Flash: November 22, c.1963, JFK Assassination, c.1968 (Blue and Red)

Daisy, c.1982 (Blue on Blue) Daisy, c.1982 (Fuschia and Yellow) Daisy, c.1982 (Crimson and Pink) Daisy, c.1982 (fuchsia and yellow) Daisy, c.1982 (Blue and Red)

Edie Sedgwick, 1966

Detail of the Last Supper, c.1986

Queen Margrethe II of Denmark (Series of 4) from the Reigning Queens Royal Edition with Diamond Dust of 1985

Details of Boticelli's Birth of Venus, c.1984

Cowboys and Indians: John Wayne 201/250, 1986

Reigning Queens: Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, c.1985 (Dark Outline)

Brooklyn Bridge, c.1983 (Orange, Blue, Lime)

Self Portrait in Orange

Mao, 1972

Red Lenin, c.1987

Alexander the Great, c.1982 (Pink Face)

Double Mona Lisa, 1963

Rorschach, c.1984

You Are So Little, c.1958

Fish, c.1983

S&H Green Stamps, c.1965

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