Warhol, Andy 1928 - 1987

Biography

Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1928. As the most famous practitioner of Pop Art, he is best known for his frequent use of silk screening to reproduce images.

His silk-screened works would often use repeated imagery to render the subjects simply another artistic element. Celebrity and familiarity figured prominently in his work and his approach to it.

His interest in repetition led him to arrange boxes of brillo pads and produce prints of celebrities, particularly Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley. In his silk-screened "Two Elvis" (1963), he layered the canvas with two images of Elvis. In his "Do It Yourself Landscape" (1962), he recreated a partially completed "paint by numbers" landscape using acrylic on canvas.

His art explored many forms including producing Movies and Music
(The Velvet Underground)

Andy Warhol died in New York in 1987.