No other artist is as much identified with Pop Art as Andy Warhol. The media called him the Prince of Pop.
Born in 1930 in Pittsburgh as the son of Slovak immigrants. His original name was Andrew Warhola. Graduated commercial art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburghin 1949 and went to New York where he worked as an illustrator for magazines like Vogue and Harpar's Bazaar. He soon became one of New York's most successful commercial illustrators.
In the sixties Warhol started painting daily objects of mass production like Campbell Soup cans and Coke bottles
He wanted to mass produce his own works of pop art and founded The Factory in 1962, an art studio where he employed "art workers" to mass produce prints and posters.
His famous works were individual portraits of the rich and affluent of his time. In 1975 Warhol published THE philosophy of Andy Warhol where he describes what art is:
"Making money is art, and working is art and good business is the best art."
Andy Warhol died February 22, 1987 from complications after a gall bladder operation.
