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Andrew Warhola Andrew Warhola known as Andy Warhol, was American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous for his work as a painter, avant-grade filmmaker, record producer, author, and member of highly diverse social circles that included bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy patrons.Warhol has been the sub ject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films. He coined the widely used expression '15 minutes of fame". In his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The Andy Warhol Museum exists in memory of his life and artwork.

Andy warhol was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 6, 1928. He was the fourth child or Andrij Warhola and Julia whose first child was iin their homeland and died before their move to the U.S. His parents were working-class Rusyns emigrants from Miko located in today's northeastern Slovakia, part of the former Austro-Hungrarian Empire. Warhol,s father immigrated to the to the US in 1914, and his mother joined him in 1921, after the death of Warhol's grandparents. Warhol's father worked in a coal mine, The family lived at 55 Beelen Street and later at 3252 Dawson Street in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. In the third grade, Warhol had chorea, the nervous sysytem disease thatcause involuntary mov ements of the extremities, which is believed to be a complication of scarlet fever and cause skin pigmentation blotchiness. He become a hypochondriac, developing a fear of hospitals and doctors. Often bed-ridden as a child, he became an outcast at school and bonded with mother. At times when he was confined to bed, he drew, listened to radio and collected pictures of movie stars around his bed.

Warhol showed early artistic talent and studied commercil art at the School of Fine Arts at Carneige Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1949, he moved to New York and began a career in magazine illustration and advertising. During the 1950's, he gained fame for his whimsical ink drawings of shoe advertisements. These were done in a loose, blotted-ink style, and figured in some of his earliest showings at the Bodley Gallery in New York. With the concurren t rapid expansion of the record industry and the inroduction of the vinly record, Hi-Fi, and stereophonic recordings, RCA Records hired Warhol, along with another freelance artist, Sid Maurer, to design album covers and promotional materials.

His first one-man art-gallery exhibition marked the West Coast debut of pop of art. Andy Warhol's first New York solo exhibit was hosted at Eleanor Ward's Stable Gallery November 6-24, 1962. The exhibit included the works Marilyn Diptych 100 Soup Cans, 100 Coke Bottles and 100 Dollar Bills. At the Sable Gallery exhibit, the artist met for the first time John Giorno who would star in Warhol's first film, Sleep, in 1963. Its was during the 1960s that Warhol began to make paintings of iconic American products such as Campbell's Soup Cans and Coc-Cola bottles, as well as paintings of celebrities such as Marilyn Monore, Elvis Presley, Troy Donahue, Muhammad Ali and Elizabeth Taylor. He founded'The Factory'. his studio during these years, and gather around himself a wide range of artists, writers, musicians, and underground celebrities. He began producing prints using the silkscreen method. His work became popular and contersial. Among the imagery tackled by Warhol were dollar bills, celebrities and brand name products. He also used as imagery for his painting newspaper headlines or photographs of mushroom clouds, electric chairs, and police dogs attacking civil rights protesters. Warhol also used Coca Cola bottles as subject matter for paintings.

Warhol died in New York City at 6:32 a.m. on February 22, 1987. According to news reports, he had been making good recovery from a routine gallbladder surgery at New York Hospital before dying in his sleep from a sudden post-operative cardiac arrhythmia. Prior to his diagnosis and operation, Warhol delayed having his recurring gallbladder problems checked, as he was afraid to enter hospital for inadequate care, saying that the arrhythmia was caused by improper care and water intoxication. Warhol's body was taken back to Pittsburgh by his brother for burial. The wake was at Thomas P. Kunsak Funeral Home and was an open-coffin ceremony. The coffin was a solid bronze casket with gold plated rails and white upholstery. Warhol was dressed in a black cashmere suit, a paisley tie, a platinum wig, and sunglasses. He was posed holding a liturgy was held at the Holy Ghost Byzantine Catholic Church on Pittsburgh's North Side. The eulogy was given by Monsignor Peter Tay. Yoko Ono also made an appearance. The coffin was covered with white roses and asparagus ferns. After the liturgy, the coffin was driven to St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery in Bethel Park, a south suburb of Pittsburgh. ( 100 Soup Cans, 1962. Example of the variations that Blum saw when determining to introduce him by exhibit.)

(Coca-Cola 4, 1962.)

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