"ANDY WARHOL"

NAME:Andy Warhol

OCCUPATION:Painter, Filmmaker

BIRTH DATE:August 06, 1928

DEATH DATE:February 22, 1987

Best Known For

Andy Warhol is famous for his "pop" paintings of everyday consumer goods, like Campbell soup cans, as well as screen-printing portraits of celebrities, like Marilyn Monroe.

Warhol's influence on pop music started with pop art and what it did to America.

Pop art provided  liberation. After all, not only was trash part of the modern landscape, but it had a life and beauty of its own.The Campbell’s Soup Cans are another approach to the same issue. He painted a vast series of cans, each a little different from any other, sometimes obviously and sometimes subtly.

The Marilyns are the first and most famous of Warhol’s Celebrity series. They are silk screened prints on canvases, the same image but different colors each time. Warhol chose silk screening because it was mechanistic rather than personal.