Andy Warhol - Pop Artist - Art and Quotes

Birth Name
Andrew Warhola
Born August 6, 1928 (1928-06) Pittsburgh
Died February 22, 1987 (aged 58) b. United States









Pepsi Cola

(Above) Turquoise-Marilyn

Campbell's Soup Can

Personal Quotes

- I would rather watch somebody buy their underwear than read a book they wrote.
- In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
- I am a deeply superficial person.
- Success is when the checks don't bounce.
- (His advice about audiences, to) "The Velvet Underground" Always leave them wanting less.
- Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.

Warhol's First Paintings
1960, Warhol began to make his first paintings. They were based on comic strips in the likes of Dick Tracy, Popeye, Superman, and two of Coca-Cola bottles. In 1961, using the Dick Tracy comic strip, he designed a window display for Lord & Taylor, at this time, major art galleries around the nation begin noticing his work. In 1962, Warhol made paintings of dollar bills and Campbell soup cans, and his work was included in an important exhibition of pop art, The New Realists, held at Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. In November of this year, Elanor Ward showed his paintings at Stable Gallery, and the exhibition began a sensation. In 1963, he rented a studio in a firehouse on East 87th Street. He met his assistant, Gerard Malanga, and started making his first film, Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of (1964). Later, he drove to Los Angeles for his second exhibition at the Ferus Gallery. In November of that year, he found a loft at 231 East 47th Street, which became his main studio, The Factory. In December, he began production of Red Jackie, the first of the Jackie series. In 1964, his first solo exhibition in Europe, held at the Galerie Ileana Sonnebend in Paris, featured the Flower series. He received a commission from architect Philip Johnson to make a mural, entitled Thirteen Most Wanted Men for the New York State Pavilion in the New York World's Fair. In April, he received an Independent Film Award from Film Culture magazine. In November, his first solo exhibition in the US was held at Leo Castelli Gallery. And at this time, he began his self portrait series.