Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol is one of the most celebrated and famous artists of the 1970’s. He was born Andrew Warhola, Jr. on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and died February 22, 1987, he was an American painter, filmmaker, and printmaker. Andy Warhol was most famous for playing a lead role in the visual art movement or more commonly referred to as pop art. He first started to devote more time into painting later in the 1950,s, when he began to make his first pop art paintings that were based off of ads and comics. In the early 1960’s Warhol reached commercial success producing a sequence of vibrant paintings with the debut of his Campbell’s Soup Can paintings. During the 1970’s he became an icon of the generation, often found at parties conversing with famous performers. To this day Warhol plays a pivotal role the history of modern art culture.