Revolutionary Artist Andy Warhol

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A multifaceted personality, Andrew Warhola, popularly called Andy Warhol, began his career as an advertisement illustrator after completing a Bachelors’ Degree in Fine Arts from Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. Born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh to parents of Slovakian origin, Andy Warhol suffered from a learning disability during his childhood.

At the tender age of eight, he suffered from the deadly disease of chorea that affected his nervous system and also affected his skin, an ailment that bothered him for the rest of his life. In spite of these impediments, Andy fared well in his academics and later in his career that spanned from an artist, to an author and also as a filmmaker.

Andy’s career as a commercial artist working in New York was a successful one. But it was his quest for attaining popularity for his skill as an artist, that lead him to take up painting. Soon his exhibitions gained immense attention from art lovers.

He genius was was to popularize his paintings by focusing on current culture… The result was pop painting. Andy later set up the ‘Factory’ where he corraled a conglomerate of artists and illustrators who could work for him to produce more of his paintings. The Factory became a popular stomping ground and was frequented by several persons of eminence. Andy went to the extent of making screen prints of paintings. That however received severe criticism from several quarters, but allowed more people to own his art.

His creativity ran to the more bizarre and outer edge, when he started making pornographic films and erotic paintings. Some of these such as Blow Job, Lonesome Cowboy and Chelsea Girls are considered to be underground classics… but you may want to judge that yourself.

While The Factory provided him with a platform to produce a and elevate his work, it also brought him close to death. He was shot by Valerie Solanis, an associate of his, in The Factory, over a trivial issue. This gunshot was nearly fatal, but miraculously Andy survived it. He underwent a prolonged surgical treatment and made a come back, but the effect of this dreadful act left an adverse effect both on his life and creativity. His work ppost gunshot never seemed as brilliant…

Andy Warhol died of a massive heart attack in 1987, on February 22, while undergoing a normal gall bladder operation. His art and the philosophy of his expressiveness has left behind a plethora of creative designs both famous and infamous, but un-ignorable in either case.

Display of his works can be found at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And is well worth the visit.

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