Andy Warhol

Born as Andrew Warhola, known as Andy Warhol and given the name Prince of Pop by the media, was a great artist who is identified with Pop Art. He is an American legend born in Pittsburgh in 1928. Warhol’s career started when he moved to New York and worked as an illustrator for magazines and commercial advertising.

Warhol made his first Pop paintings based on comics and ads in 1961 Warhol made his first Pop paintings based on comics and ads in 1961. He started painting daily objects of mass production, like Campbell Soup cans and Coke bottles, later on in the sixties.

Soon after that, he started making silkscreen prints of famous personalities like Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, and Elizabeth Taylor.

During the same time, he also extended his talents into other fields of film, publishing, writing, and television, and he started his series of “death and disaster” paintings that included images of electric chairs, suicides, and car crashes.