... advertisements, newspaper, and cinema. That only got the ball rolling. "The years following World War II saw enormous growth in the American economy, which, combined with innovations in technology and the media, spawned a consumer culture with more leisure time and expendable income than ever before" (Spivey, Warhol's Gold Marilyn Monroe). The movement electrified the minds and creative ... Artists developed their distinctive style of the early 1960s. Characterized by photo-realistic, clearly-rendered images of popular subject matter, it seemed to "assault the standards and definitions...

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... considered the "Father of Pop Art," Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1928. At the age of 17, he entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology where he majored in pictorial design. Upon graduation, Andy Warhol moved to New York where, in 1949, he began to work as an illustrator for several magazines including Vogue, Harper ... his first individual show at the Hugo Gallery, exhibiting Fifteen Drawings Based on the Writings of Truman Capote. Other exhibitions followed, including his first group show at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Warhol ...

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... suffered bouts of Sydenham Chorea which is a neurological disorder. He attended the Holmes School and took free art classes at Carnegie Institute. In 1945 he regain attending Carnegie Institute of technology until 1949. In this time he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Pictorial Design. After graduating he moved to New York. Artistically he made his debut in Glamour magazine ... and is an issue that is frequently addressed in his interviews, conversations and publications. Byzantine Catholicism, especially iconography was a major cultural influence of Warhol's which helped him cr...

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