Andy Warhol was born as Andrew Warhola. After he graduated high school and then moved on to college he changed his name and dropped the “a” from his last name. Once he graduated from college he moved to New York. This is where he began his work as a Commercial Artist. He began to become well-known for his ink drawings of shoes.
He was recognized by the Art Directors Club. He soon began publishing work for big magazines such and Vogue and The New Yorker. While he was doing this he was also created window paintings in some of the high-end companies.“Art is what you can get away with.”
After exhibiting his art in art galleries, he moved to His own “Factory”. This is when he started his screen prints. He painted Coca Cola bottles, Cambells Soup Cans, Marilyn Monroe, Micheal Jackson and Elvis Presley. When he was asked why paint the Cambells Soup Can, He replied“I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and that was it”.
“I like to be the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place.Being the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place is worth it because something interesting always happens.”
He then began working in production making films. He had many films most of them were underground films. Some of these films were, Blow Job, Sleep, and Empire. His next film called the ” Chelsea Girls”, was the first underground movie to make it to the big screens.Warhol made around 600 Films and 2500 videos. 500 of these films were of Warhol’s friends, and associates that he seen as “Stars”. They were only 4 minutes long. After his escapade in the film making industry, He continued making sculptures. This is the time when he also began to become more interested performance and music.
He then almost died from a fatal gun shot wound from Valerie Solano, A feminist author. This forever changed the artist. He began to record ever action leading to around 3,400 audio tapes. Some of these tapes were published in the ” Warhol Diaries”.
This did not slow him down however. He than began to intersect all areas of art. He did the cover of Grammy winning covers of the Rolling Stones, and appeared on the ” Love Boat” Television shoe. He signed with a modeling agency, made short films for “Saturday Night Live”, He also has his own T.V. shoes on MTV called Andy Warhol’s Fifteen Minutes and Andy Warhol’s T.V. He also co owned a magazine called, Interview Magazine.
Unfortunately he died of a gallbladder operation. But his work will live on forever. Not only did he help the pop art but his quotes will live on forever.
”In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.”
He just wanted to help new artists and do as much as he could do in his life, by expressing himself through is colorful abstracted art. They made an Andy Warhol museum in Pittsburg in 1989 to show his wonderful art and let his legacy live on.
”Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.”
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