Andy Warhol
...ural icons like Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, their images often endlessly repeated on a canvas, and his renditions of Campbell soup cans and boxes of Brillo pads are provocative statements about the commercialism and mass production of the era. Andy Warhol Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh. Educated in pictorial design and art history at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), Warhol initially began his career as a commercial artist. After graduation Warhol moved to New York City and became an illustrator for magazines such as Vogue, Glamour and Harper's Bazaar. In 1960, Warhol resolved to establish himself as a painter and soon gained renown as a leader of the Pop Art movement. His ubiquitous silkscreens of cultural icons like Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, their images often endlessly repeated on a canvas, and his renditions of Campbell soup cans and boxes of Brillo pads are provocative statements about the commercialism and mass production of the era. Aside from paintings and silkscreens, ...