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Andy Warhol

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Biography

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was an American artist, producer, designer, writer, collector, magazine publisher, and film Director, a cult figure in the history of the pop art movement and modern art in General. The founder of the "homo universale" ideology, the Creator of works that are synonymous with the concept of "commercial pop art".

Biography

Just as his whole life is contradictory, so is the information about the date of his birth. Everyone names different years, it is 1927, 1928, and 1930, and only two dates are mentioned – August 6 and September 28. Warhol claimed that he was born in August 28. Whatever it was, one thing is certain, he was born in the city of Pittsburgh, which is located in the state of Pennsylvania. At birth, he was given the name Andrew Warhol.

Biography

In the period from 1945 to 1949, he studied in his hometown at the Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Mellon University), which focuses on technological specialties, where he studied commercial art. Andy Warhol always studied well and was often incomprehensible to his teachers and classmates. At the time, he fully fit the stereotype of a genius.

Creation

In 1960, he made a design for Coca-Cola cans, which later became a cult.

Creation

A revolution for Andy Warhol was in 1962, when he created a series of paintings with images of cans of canned food and soups "Campbell's". These drawings were made using flashy colors. They became the artist's calling card. Showing these works at an exhibition that took place in the gallery "Stabl", in the same year, he detonated a bomb. Andy Warhol, in an instant, became a sensation.

Creation

From the same year, the artist began to use the technique of silkscreen printing – a technique for repeating the same image. These repetitions became one of Warhol's properties. This acidic style includes images of Avice Presley, Liz Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Mick Jagger, as well as multiple amounts of Coca-Cola. All these people were idols of that time. This style has not changed throughout his life.

Creation

Andy Warhol often said that he would like to create a moving work of art and in 1978 he came up with a way to do it. Andy Warhol painted a race car with any available tools at hand.

Awards and memory

In 1956, Andy Warhol was awarded an honorary prize, which was established by the "club of art editors". To order from the Corporation "Coca-Cola" in 1960, Warhol develops a design for cans of this drink.

Awards and memory

• In 2002 The United States postal service issued a 37-cent stamp featuring a self-portrait of the artist in 1964, which was first presented at a ceremony held on April 9, 2002 at the End Warhol Museum.
• In March 2011, at the corner of Union square in A chrome statue of Andy Warhol was installed in new York.
• In April 2016, the decision of the Head of Transcarpathian region of Gennady Moskal, October square in the village of minai was named after Andy Warhol.

Interesting fact

• Despite his Bohemian life, Warhol was an ardent Catholic. In the last years of his career, he attended Church almost every day. Many friends did not know about his religion until the artist's death.
• Warhol liked to eat alone and even wanted to open a chain of restaurants for single people.
• Andy Warhol worked as a volunteer at a homeless shelter in new York.
• His closest friends called him "Drella". This nickname was born as a combination of the English "Dracula" and "Cinderella".