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Andy Warhol
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- Born:
- August 6, 1928 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
- Died:
- February 22, 1987 (aged 58) New York City New York
- Notable Works:
- “Blue Movie” “Chelsea Girls” “Lupe” “My Hustler” “Poor Little Rich Girl”
- Movement / Style:
- Pop art ready-made
Andy Warhol, original name Andrew Warhola, (born August 6, 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died February 22, 1987, New York, New York), American artist and filmmaker, an initiator and leading exponent of the Pop art movement of the 1960s whose mass-produced art apotheosized the supposed banality of the commercial culture of the United States. An adroit self-publicist, he projected a concept of the artist as an impersonal, even vacuous, figure who is nevertheless a successful celebrity, businessman, and social climber. The son of Ruthenian (Rusyn) immigrants from what is now eastern Slovakia, Warhol graduated in 1949 from the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...(100 of 478 words)