Andy Warhol

Pop Art

Warhol’s Life

• Born in 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.• Sick as a child, Warhol drew pictures in bed.• Studied commercial art at Carnegie Institute of Technology. • After graduating Warhol moved to New York City.• Warhol began illustrating for magazines and creating advertisements. • Warhol died in 1987 of a heart attack.

Warhol and The 60’s• The 1960s was an extremely prolific decade for Warhol. • Warhol’s images came from popular culture.• Warhol created many paintings that remain icons of 20th-century art, such as the Campbell's Soup Cans, Disasters and Marilyns.• Warhol began silk screening his images in order to mass produce them.

Andy Warhol, Self Portrait

The Beginning of Pop Art

Painting Title: Mickey MouseAndy WarholFamous American artist - Pop Artist

What is Pop Art?

Pop ArtA visual art movement that began in Britain in

the late 1950’s and spread to America.

Painting Title: Elizabeth TaylorAndy WarholFamous American artist - Pop Artist

Pop Art is one of the major art movements of the twentieth century.

Characterized by themes and

techniques drawn from popular mass

culture, such as advertising, comic

books and mundane cultural objects.

100 Cans of Soup

Pop Art, like pop music, aimed to employ images of popular as

opposed to elitist culture in art.

Banana, created by Warhol for an Album Cover

Painting Title: Turquoise Marilyn 1962Andy WarholFamous American artist - Pop Artist

Muhamed Ali, Professional Boxer

Liza Minelli, Singer

Campbell’s Soup Can

Marilyn Monroe, Actress

ReferencesPop art. (2008, October 12). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 22:24, October 12, 2008,

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