Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania on August 6, 1928 and died February 22, 1987. He was a leading figure in the 1960s pop art movement. During his education as an artist Warhol attended Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. His work provoked mass media and high culture as well as low culture. Such as household products, musicians, and movie stars. Nothing and no one was safe. He worked in several mediums including film, screen printing, photography, and painting etc. He is best known for his silk screen prints of celebrities including Elvis and Madonna, The velvet underground’s album cover, and probably his most famous the Campbell’s tomato soup can, and just to name a few. Warhol took Henry Ford’s assembly line idea, and turned it towards the art world. Warhol would create an idea and have a team of artists he employed at his factory to produce his artworks in mass productions.
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