Andy Warhall

Andrew Warhola, was born August 6, 1928 in Pittsburg. He was the youngest son of Czechoslovakian immigrants. Andrew was born at the time of the Wall Street Crash (1929) and the Great Depression. Like millions of other families, Andrew’s father could not find work and his early childhood was very difficult and deprived. After several years his family’s financial situation improved and he was older he attend a commercial design course at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Institute of Technology. Although he was very shy and had a strong fear of failure, he did very well there.

In 1949, Andrew Warhola moved to New York. After his first commission to illustrate shoes, Andrew noticed that the final ‘a’ of his na

During the 1970’s Andy work moved in a new direction. He began painting images of common people. He painted various subjects from his mother, to the American Indian Russell Means, to the writer Truman Capote (Andy admired and was attracted to Capote but the feelings were never returned). Andy created many more paintings of those in his life. He also painted several self-portraits that I find interesting because they are all partly disguised in some way (I have been unable to find one clear picture of him). Images of Warhol range from half silhouette blurred portraits to pictures from his earlier years wearing dark sunglasses or even more interesting – an army camouflaged face with the jigsaw like pieces disguising his true form.

Andy needed new ideas to help boost his creativity. He got several ideas from a woman named Muriel Latow; a gallery owner he knew. She advised him to paint what he loved most (like money) or what everybody would recognize (soup cans and coke bottles). Andy expanded on these ideas and his paintings of the early 60’s reflected his progress as a Pop artist. He finally gained the financial success and international fame he had longed for.

In Warhol’s later disaster paintings, for instance, he portrays ‘illth’s in society, as John Ruskin described it in the 19th century, that is the downside of modern civilization that has to be set against the ‘wealth’ – the benefits it brings: for example death and injury that the car brings against its obvious advantages. It is this factor of focus, and not the common artifacts used, that give Pop, and particularly the work of Warhol, its significance. (3)

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