| The American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol | | | | image is transferred to a silk screen that is |
| was born Andrew Warhola in 1928. There has | | | | then placed on a canvas and inked from the |
| for years been quite a bit of confusion to | | | | back. It was this technique that enabled him |
| where and when Andy Warhol was born, but | | | | to produce the series of mass media images |
| according to Andy's two older brothers and | | | | repetitive, yet with slight variations that |
| the birth certificate that was filed in | | | | he began in 1962. These, incorporating such |
| Pittsburgh in 1945, he was born on August 6th | | | | items as Campbell's Soup cans, dollar bills, |
| in Pittsburgh. Whether or not this is the day | | | | CocaCola bottles, and the faces of |
| he was born hasn't been proved, but it was on | | | | celebrities, can be taken as comments on the |
| this date he would celebrate his birthday. | | | | banality, harshness, and ambiguity of |
| | | | American culture. |
| Andy Warhol is considered a founder and major | | | | |
| figure of the POP ART movement. A graduate of | | | | Later in the 1960s, Warhol made a series of |
| the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1949, | | | | experimental films dealing with such ideas as |
| he moved to New York City and gained success | | | | time, boredom, and repetition; they include |
| as a commercial artist. He got his first | | | | Sleep (1963), Empire (1964), and The Chelsea |
| break in August 1949, when Glamour Magazine | | | | Girls (1966). In 1965 he started working with |
| wanted him to illustrate a feature entitled | | | | a rockband called "The Velvet Underground" |
| "Success is a Job in New York". He continued | | | | formed by Lou Reed and John Cale. Andy Warhol |
| doing ads and illustrations and by 1955 he | | | | introduced them to the model and moviestar |
| was the most successful and imitated | | | | Nico and she sang on their debut album from |
| commercial artist in New York. In 1960 he | | | | 1967 "The Velvet Underground and Nico". Andy |
| produced the first of his paintings depicting | | | | would travel around the country, not only |
| enlarged comic strip images such as Popeye | | | | with The Velvets, but also with superstar of |
| and Superman initially for use in a window | | | | the year Edie Sedgwick and the lightshow "The |
| display. Warhol pioneered the development of | | | | Exploding Plastic Inevitable". |
| the process whereby an enlarged photographic | | | | |