Andy Warhol

1928 Pittsburgh - 1987 New York

Pop artist Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh on August 6, 1928. Andy Warhol studied commercial art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh from 1945 to 1949. He then went to New York, where he worked as a window dresser and as a commercial artist for magazines and journals. In 1952 his first solo exhibition, "Fifteen Drawings Based on the Writings of Truman Capote," was held at the Hugo Gallery in New York. In 1956 the Museum of Modern Art also shows his works in a group exhibition and Andy Warhol becomes famous as a graphic artist. Now he also begins to make paintings on canvas, using the techniques of the graphic artist, and chooses trivial motifs from advertising, everyday life, and comic figures for his art as a counter-reaction to the abstract expressionism that was prevalent at the time

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1.116 offers (in the last 12 months)

Watercolor / Drawing: 129
Prints: 774
Photography: 40
Sculpture / Object: 7
Painting: 118