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Fall 2009 Artists’ Biographies Andy Warhol Andy Warhol, Self-portrait, 1966, screen-printing Andrew Warhol was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1928. He was the third child of working class parents, who were immigrants from Slovakia. He was raised as a strict Catholic. In third grade he suffered from the disease called St. Vitus dance, a complication of scarlet fever. This resulted in long-term effects to his skin coloration and he became a hypochondriac. He was bedridden for a lot of his childhood. To occupy time in bed he collected old pictures of movie stars and put them up around his bed. He also drew and listened to the radio. He says that this period of his life was important to the development of his personality. From a young age he showed talent in art. When he was old enough he studied commercial art at the School of Fine Arts at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. In 1949 he moved to New York City and began a successful career in magazine illustration and advertising. In 1950 he gained fame, something he always craved, from his shoe ads that were created by using a loose inkblotting style. RCA hired him to make record covers and promotional material. In 1962 he held his first exhibit, which included the Marilyn Diptych, 100 Soup Cans, 100 Coke Bottles, and 100 Dollar Bills. During the 60s Andy founded “the factory,” a studio that became a hang-out for artists of all kinds. Once Andy started working in the factory he began to use silk-screening. With his process he was able to produce his artwork “en masse.” Warhol liked the idea of silk-screening because he was making art work using images of mass produced products and he was then mass-producing his art work. He said that he wanted to be a machine. Warhol became quickly known for his brightly colored pop art. Some critics were turned off by his glorification of Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup, 1968, silk screen-printing 17
Fall 2009 Artists’ Biographies market goods but it was clear that there had been a change in the art world and he had sparked it. He started to make films as well. He cast his friends, who were artists and socialites, and would film in “the factory.” In 1968 Valerie Solanas, a radical feminist who had been in one of the Warhol films, came to the studio to pick up a script but was denied entry. In a fit of anger she came back and shot Warhol, as well as an art critic, and a curator. Everyone survived. The 70s were a Andy Warhol, Turquoise Marilyn, 1962, silk screen-printing calmer time for Warhol. He was well-established and some of his patrons were well-known movie stars and musicians. In 1975 he wrote a book, Philosophy of Andy Warhol, where he discussed the nature of art. During the 80s Andy started to get back into the limelight, mainly because of his friendships with new upcoming artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat. However, critics were starting to turn on Warhol, saying that he was a “business artist.” The majority of his art was of celebrities. People thought he had become very superficial but Warhol had always been fascinated with celebrities and people of the elite. In 1987, after gallbladder surgery, Warhol suffered from a heart attack and died. It was a tragedy in the art world and many gathered at his funeral. His ideas were bold and different and helped to change the art world. He took chances and become an icon of the 60s and 70s. 18
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