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Andy Warhol
American artist
Also known as: Andrew Warhola
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Arts & Culture
- Original name:
- Andrew Warhola
- Born:
- August 6, 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Notable Works:
- “Blue Movie”
- “Chelsea Girls”
- “Lupe”
- “My Hustler”
- “Poor Little Rich Girl”
- Movement / Style:
- Pop art
- ready-made
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Andy Warhol (born August 6, 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died February 22, 1987, New York, New York) American artist and filmmaker, an initiator and leading exponent of the Pop art movement of the 1960s whose mass-produced art apotheosized the supposed banality of the commercial culture of the United States. An adroit self-publicist, he projected a concept of the artist as an impersonal, even vacuous, figure who is nevertheless a successful celebrity, businessman, and social climber. The son of Ruthenian (Rusyn) immigrants from what is now eastern Slovakia, Warhol graduated in 1949 from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), ...(100 of 478 words)