- Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and grew up drawing and listening to the radio after contracting cholera as a child. He later attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology. - Warhol gained fame for his commercial illustrations and advertisements in New York in the 1950s. He began making fine art in the 1960s, including his iconic Campbell's Soup Cans paintings. - Warhol founded his studio, The Factory, and produced films, paintings, and works that explored popular culture and consumerism. He worked with the Velvet Underground and created portraits of celebrities like Michael Jackson and Mao Zedong.

1. Andy Warhol

2. Andy Warhol’s Childhood Home

3. Carnegie Mellon University

4. Making the Rounds, 1950 In the Bottom of My Garden , ca. 1956

5. Campbell’s Soup Cans , 1962

6. MASS MEDIA

7. The Velvet Underground (Band) Screenshot from Chelsea Girls

8. Actual Valerie Solanas Lili Taylor, I Shot Andy Warhol

9. Mao , 1973 Michael Jackson , 1984

10. Accused of surrendering or helping Consumerism

11. The Last Supper Cycle, 1986 Ted Carey and Andy Warhol, ca. 1958

13. Childhood Pittsburg, Pennsylvania Caught cholera in third grade Became hypochondriac and bed-ridden, growing attached to his mother While bed-ridden he drew, listened to the radio and collected pictures of movie stars around his bed Father died from jaundice from tainted water he drank at a construction site while he was 13 University Attended School of Fine Arts at Carnegie Institute of Technology Struggled Freshman year, took summer drawing classes to improve Involved in student activities such as the Modern Dance Club, only male member, the Beaux Arts Society and working as editor on the student publication Cano . Advertisement Work Moved to New York worked in magazine illustration and advertisements Gained fame from shoe advertisements Some work shown in his earliest showing in Bodley Gallery Hired by RCA Records to design album covers and promotional materials Fine Art Solo exhibition in Ferus gallery in Los Angeles Founded his studio The Factory Held the pivotal event The Supermarket Influences Mass media, commercialism, every day things bringing them up and creating art from everyday things or things everyone knows “ What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca-Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca-Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca-Cola, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.” Other Works Created controversial and often bizarre films, some of them anti-films(Talk about a few) Adopted The Velvet Underground Attempted Assassination Valerie Solanas, author of the S.C.U.M.(Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto and small figure in the Factory scene shot at Warhol and curator Mario Amaya on June 3, 1968 Had asked Warhol earlier in the day for a script that seemed to have been misplaced Warhol was lucky to live through the incident and affected him for the rest of his life 70s and 80s Warhol became much more of businessman, quoted as saying “Making money is art, and working is art and good business is the best art.” Criticism Some people criticized him falling into commercialism, encouraging it Personal Life Practicing Ruthenian Rite Catholic, regularly volunteered at homeless shelters Thought to be homosexual and a virgin Drew many male nudes, some works turned away for being to openly gay Death Had been making good recovery from gallbladder surgery before dying in his sleep for a post-operative cardiac arrhythmia Almost all his estate, as dictated by his will, was used to create a foundation for the advancement of the visual arts The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is one of the largest grant-giving organizations in the US

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