Andy
Warhol
The Artist Andy Warhol’s full name is Andrew Warhola, Warhol was born in the month of August on the 6th in the year of 1928. He was born in Oakland, Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. His parents’ names are Ordej Warhola and Julia Warhola, his father used to work as a construction man and his mother used to work as an embroiderer. Their religion was devout Byzantine Catholics, in which as a whole family they used to go to church very often, in which by that they enabled a lot of their Slovakian culture and heritage, this was done whilst they were living in Pittsburgh in the Eastern area in a part of group. Andy Warhol when he was 8 years old he contracted St. Vitus’s Dance, its definition means a not occurring very often and casually fatal disease in which left Andy Warhol sick in bed for quite some time. Warhol’s mother was the first person ever to give Andy Warhol his first ever private drawing lesson. After that Andy Warhol gave his interest in Art, and so he decided to begin drawing for the childhood pastime. When he was a child his own mother had bought him a camera and then he decided to take close up photographs, in which he developed the photographs taken in a makeshift darkroom, which he had put up Andy Warhol himself. Andy Warhol as a kid he used to go the Holmes Elementary school and he also was taking some free art lessons which were being lectured in the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. As Andy Warhol grew older and turned into a teenager, his father had suffered from a sickness in his liver which was jaundiced and he died from this. Warhol emerged under his bed because he was very upset that he couldn’t attend his father’s funeral. Warhol’s father left his will for his son Andy Warhol for his collage educational, he did such thing because his father knew about his love for art, and so to show his love for his some he did such thing for his son so he could show his artistic skills. In that same year Andy Warhol started going to school at Schenley High School, and then he graduated, but before he registered himself at the Carnegie Institute for Technology, he did so, so he could enable himself to to make his studies further on pictorial design.
Andy Warhol when he
had graduated and got a degree from College in Fine Arts, to accomplish his
dream he then had to move to New York. After some times then got an offer to
work with the Glamour magazine, and after that step he then wanted to become a
very successful artist. Andy Warhol with his ability he had won multiple
awards. At a later stage Andy Warhol gave more interest in painting, and so in
the year 1961 he performed an abstract idea of Pop Art, which his ideas where
mostly brought on mass production. In the year of 1962 he had put up a painting
of Campbell soup cans. These art works give a lot of impact in the Art
Production, which put up a bigger name on Warhol and Pop art.
References:
- Andy Warhol Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story - Biography.com . 2013. Andy Warhol Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story - Biography.com . [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.biography.com/people/andy-warhol-9523875?page=2. [Accessed 16 May 2013].
- The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts . 2013. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts . [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.warholfoundation.org/. [Accessed 16 May 2013].
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