Andy Warhol (ca. 1927-1987) was a pioneer American pop artist and film maker. His paintings of Campbell soup cans and other mundane objects both piqued and delighted the art public and brought him fame. Andy Warhol liked to shroud himself in mystery....

Andy Warhol was worried about a pimple he had found that morning. B, on the other end of the telephone line, told him to cover it up. Warhol got some makeup and did so. "Okay, B, okay. So now the pimple's covered. But am I covered? I have to look into...

Born August 6, 1928Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Died February 22, 1987New York, New York Artist, filmmaker, publisher, entrepreneur Andy Warhol....

Andy Warhol was the most renowned Pop artist in the 1960s and, more generally, one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. His boundless and apparently effortless creativity expressed itself in many forms. He was a commercial designer,...

Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), better known as Andy Warhol, was an American artist who was a central figure in the movement known as Pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide...

A photographer may have discovered an experimental self-portrait drawn by Andy Warhol. While rummaging through some framed paintings and drawings at an estate sale this fall, New York photographer Addison Thompson saw a drawing that looked like a Warhol from the 1950s. He sent an...

In a mingling of pop art, advertising and the real thing, about 30 Andy Warhol renderings of Coca-Cola's curvy trademark bottle will go on display at a new museum near headquarters for the world's largest beverage maker.Most of the paintings, pencil sketches and screenprints _...

In a mingling of pop art, advertising and the real thing, about 30 Andy Warhol renderings of Coca-Cola's curvy trademark bottle will go on display at a new museum near headquarters for the world's largest beverage maker.Most of the paintings, pencil sketches and screenprints _...

The owner of a silkscreen self-portrait of Andy Warhol is suing the late artist's estate, saying it conspired for 20 years to control the market for Warhol's work with authority to stamp "DENIED" on any work it claimed was fake.In a $20 million lawsuit filed...

Warhol was a central protagonist in a social drama that tried to make the 1960's look like another Age of Innocence. A childlike, gum-chewing naïveté inflects his visions of electric chairs and the ripped bloody bodies dangling from car wrecks; it merges with the pornographic lusting in so many of his films to touch them with an almost sweet aesthetic anodyne. Like that of the classic décadent, his aesthetics is the narcotic to a sense of damnation; unlike that of the déca...

A part of Warhol's negotiable charm as a modern entertainer is his work as applied art-naiveté. There is something both perverse and violent about pasting the camera eye on a limited field of vision, with limited action inside it, and asking the spectator to paste his eye over that, and just wait. The ensuing charm, I should say, is more than a trifle masochistic. But take the contrary view. A high pulse exists in the modern temper (I mean everybody's temper) for elective affinity with ...

The essence of Warhol's art—and by extension that of the Factory he heads—is the straight look at things as they are, and acceptance of appearances as an important part, perhaps the most important part, of the truth. It is the same whether the object is a Campbell's Soup can or the Empire State Building or some people just living, just talking, just being in front of the camera. And if what people are is what they appear to be, what they appear to be is very importantly what they...

This decribes why I selected Andy Warhol and what draws me to his work.

Essay contains a biography of Andy Warhol describing his life as well as his accomplishments.

Examines the life of American artist and pop culture icon, Andy Warhol. Describes his early life, education and training. Explores his body of work and rise to success in 1960s New York.