Born 1928 Pittsburgh. The son of Slovak immigrants. Majored in pictorial design at Carnegie Institute of Technology 1949. He worked as an illustrator for several magazines including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and The New Yorker. He had his first solo exhibition in 1952 at the Hugo Gallery in New York. During the sixties Warhol started painting daily objects of mass production like Campbell Soup cans and Coke bottles. From 1962 on he started making silkscreen prints of famous personalities like Marilyn Monroe or Elizabeth Taylor.
The quintessence of Andy Warhol art was to remove the difference between fine arts and the commercial arts used for magazine illustrations, comic books, record albums or advertising campaigns.
"When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums". Warhol died February 22, 1987.
