The Art of Andy Warhol:

        Andy Warhol, Nosepicker I: Why Pick on Me (originally titled The Lord Gave Me My Face but I Can Pick My Own Nose), 1948

 

Andy Warhol, 25 Cats Name[d] Sam and One Blue Pussy, 1956
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

 

Andy Warhol, Crushed Campbell's Soup Can (Beef Noodle), 1962
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

 Andy Warhol, Flowers, 1964
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

Andy Warhol, Skull, 1976
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh;

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            Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh,

Pennsylvania. As a child, Warhol suffered from a disorder commonly known as St. Vitus

dance. The disorder caused involuntary movements and kept Warhol from school

occasionally. When he stayed home, he would read comics and play with paper cutouts. His

disorder caused him also to be fixated on his physical imperfections. Warhol changed his

physical imperfections with his clothing, wigs, cosmetics, and plastic surgery to change the

shape of his nose. His parents realized Warhol’s talent and saved for him to go to college at

Carnegie Institute of Technology.

            In 1960, Warhol turned his focus to the pop art movement. Warhol’s first pivotal piece was entitled, “Coca-Cola”, and was the piece to transform him from hand-painted works to silkscreens. Silk screening is a printing method that is a mesh of some sorts that allows ink to be put on the picture, but only in the places that are not blocked. In 1962, he began a large series of celebrity portraits, featuring Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, and Elizabeth Taylor. He also made his Campbell's soup can series and opened his first solo pop art exhibition at Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. Warhol’s largest bodies of work consisted of about one hundred works featuring da Vinci’s, “The Last Supper.” Nine months before his death, Warhol created a series of iconic self-portraits. Finally, Andy Warhol stated, “If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.”

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Danto, Arthur C. Andy Warhol, Yale University Press, 2009. ProQuest Ebook Central,

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