Born in August of 1928 to Slovak immigrants in Pennsylvania, Warhol showed an interest in drawing and painting at an early age. His actual date of birth is still a mystery today and only add

enchantment of his work. After high school, he became a commercial artist, but would soon make a name for himself as a “pop artist”. Andy concentrated on and drew his inspiration from popular culture. However, he heightened the colors and changed the scale to make the images larger than life. In doing so he redefined pictorial realism and extended its concept (Nicholson 8-10).

Mickey Mouse, who throughout his history has been a major figure in film and TV, is brought to modern age by Warhol. However, the light sprinkling of diamond dust he used adds a child-like imagination to the print. Warhol thought Mickey's virtue to be that he was only a “couple of circles perched on pipe-stem legs, a composition easily drawn by anybody with a pencil” (Marling). Therefore, in 1981, Warhol created what he called a mythical Mickey, and thus put it with the other “myth” paintings of Superman and Santa Claus. His Myth Series “illustrates how devoted he was in revealing the truth about the social engineering and commercial influences that often act oppressively, collectively overwhelming citizens, no matter what age they are”(Swenso

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