In the Spotlight this Winter and Spring Pop Culture Pittsburgh is “In the future everybody will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” – Andy Warhol
Filmmaker, photographer, painter, commercial illustrator, music producer, writer and even fashion model – Andy Warhol was a true radical in his approach to art and life.
The breadth of his influence has made him one of the most important artists of our time. He challenged traditional boundaries between art and life, art and business, and numerous forms of media. In the process, he turned everyday life into art – and art into a way to live the everyday – collecting, documenting, reproducing, experimenting and collaborating with the people, places and things around him.
Perhaps Warhol’s greatest innovation was that he saw no limits to his practice. His Pop sensibility embraced an anything-can-be-art approach – appropriating images, ideas and even innovation itself.
The Andy Warhol Museum invites you to learn more about the renowned Pop Artist by visiting our internationally acclaimed museum in Pittsburgh, Andy Warhol’s birthplace. And, we are delighted to share with you some of his iconic work by showcasing it in this publication.
– Eric Shiner; Director, The Andy Warhol Museum About Andy…
1. Andy Warhol was born in Pitts- burgh on Aug. 6, 1928 and origi- nally named Andrew Warhola.
2. Warhol graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in 1949, where he received a com- mercial art degree.
3. Warhol got his start by working as an illustrator for magazines like Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar.
4. Warhol was a Byzantine Catholic and attended mass regularly.
5. In 1952, Warhol had his first one- man show exhibition at the Hugo Gallery in New York.
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6. Warhol made over 300 under- ground films, including Sleep which showed a man sleeping for over six hours.
7. In 1962, Warhol exhibited Camp- bell’s Soup Cans which included 32 canvasses, each with a different type of Campbell’s soup.
8. Warhol loved his cats and their images can be found in many of his works.
Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait (detail), ©1986 AWF
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