Essay 1 An artist, one who professes and practices an imaginative art. That is exactly what Andy Warhol was born to do as he started experimenting with different materials and mediums of art when he was a young boy. Everything leading up to his enormous success as being one of the founding fathers of Pop Art and being one of the two most famous artists in the late twentieth century. Warhol was so different it was what made his work stand out from the rest, he was a true artist and that is what made him who he is now known for. The art he produced was so prominent because he based everything he did around his own identity and the culture at the time and hid behind his work instead of shine in front of it. Andrew Warhola was born a son of two immigrants in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with a rare disease called Sydenham chorea. That disease forced him to have to be stuck inside for most of his childhood alone which led him to finding his passion and drive for art. He was a very unique artist as he was someone who focused on many different medias of art such as film making, screen printing, painting, photography, and much more. He couldn’t just settle for one specific type of art because while stuck inside he had time to experiment with all types of materials which led him to become the artist he is now known for. When his father passed away he left the family just enough money for one of the three children to go to college. Warhol was fourteen at the time and his other two brother were older, the family agreed that Andrew would be the one to go for art as he loved it so much. Couple years later he graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology with a degree in pictorial design being the first of his family to graduate college. He immediately moved to New York and started his life as Andy Warhol, a famous pop-artist and silk screener with his first success, the Campbell Soup Cans. Andy Warhol was a family man as you see through his childhood experience of being stuck inside all day and also his mother moving to New York to be with him just three years after he left. He was constantly working and pushing himself to take care of his family and one of his most famous quotes is, “I want to be a machine.” He was always interested in the idea of mass production as you see through his famous works, Campbell’s Soup Cans, Brillo, and Triple Elivs. While stuck inside when younger he was known for being obsessed with celebrities and would cut them out of magazines and newspapers and make collages of them. He had this weird love and obsession with fame in which he showed through his work in New York as he painted people and also included them in his films Prince, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, and more. He was interested in the idea of fame rather than the people and believed everyone could and would be famous as he stated many times, “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes” (Nuwer 1). When having .