ANDY

WARHOL

Andy Warhol was born in the United States.

His family was from

Slovakia.

When he was a child he was sick. He played with

his camera at home.

He loved tomato soup.

He painted butterflies and sold his pictures when he was 10.

His dream was to be a tap dancer.

He moved to New York to work as a commercial artist.

The blotted line drawing was his technique to print paintings. He used ink, paintbrushes and tracing

paper.

His mother helped him.She did the curly handwriting on Andy´s paintings.

He liked to draw cakes,

shoes…

… and Christmas Cards.

He called his studio “The Factory”.

Pop Art means POPULAR. He made art from everyday objects.

He also painted flowers.

He painted lots of animals in funny colours.

He painted cows in different colours and a whole wall full of pink cows.

He had 25 cats, all of them named Sam, and one blue pussy named Hester.

His cats gave him the idea of printing the same painting several times, that´s how he sold many paintings and lots of people knew him.

He painted famous people.

This “kiss” from Andy to his friend Elizabeth Taylor, written in a little piece of

paper costs $8000

He made over 650 films.

One of the films was called Sleep which showed nothing but a man sleeping for six hours!

Another film, called Kiss showed various couples kissing for 3½ minutes each.

He became world famous. He had a TV show and published many books.

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WARM

COOL