Andy Warhol (real name Andrzej Warhola),was born on 6th of August, 1928 in Forest City (Pennsylvania) in a family of Czechoslovak emigrants.
In 1949, Warhol graduated from Pittsburgh Carnegie Institute of Technology with a diploma of the artist-designer. After he moved to New York city, Andy Warhol changed his name to and worked in designer stores: ‘Tiffany & Co’, ‘Bonvit Teller’ as well as in magazines ‘Vogue’ and ‘Glamour’. Working in advertising has brought success and Warhol bought a house in Manhattan.
After the exhibition of drawings for Campbell’s canned soup company, held in Los Angeles in 1962, Andy Warhol’s work became famous. By 1963, Warhol began to use silkscreen method, and the most of his works performed in this manner.
Warhol’s most important works include: ‘Marilyn Monroe’, ‘Elvis Presley’, ‘John Wayne’, ‘Campbell’s soup cans’. Although it’s really hard to find Andy Warhol prints in high resolution, it is still possible.
Highlighting the aspect of mass production, Warhol called his studio “The Factory” In the same period, Warhol began to direct movies.
In 1980 Warhol began to take more orders and commercial orders for advertising. At that period he made a lot of paintings that are available now as Andy Warhol posters.
Andy Warhol died Feb. 22, 1987 in his sleep of a heart attack in Cornwall Medical Center in Manhattan the next day after gallbladder removal surgery