... he have money and pretend to be poor? Or was he actually poor because he didn't get along with his wealthy parents? He was sleeping in a box in the beginning and then he was staying at his friends house, then he had his own place, then he lived with his girlfriend and then someone ... of the art world, a side I had never contemplated before. For instance, when Basquiat was sleeping in the box outside and Rene was on the bench, Rene didn't even acknowledge him when he stepped out of his box. They ran into each other a few more times without any conversation or acknowledgement. Until they w...

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... to the radio in his spare time, because of his illness. Andy had a very creative imagination. He loved art growing up, he moved from Philadelphia to New York City, to pursue his dream and passion of becoming an artist. Warhol met tons of people with similar feelings and aspects on art. He found people ... with the same mindset as him, and he began to fit in with New Yorkers. Although he was still considered different, it was all portrayed in a good way. They loved him for his different ways, creativity, and love for ... personality shined and he was not closed off, like he was for most o...

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... 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 name was omitted in the credits and since decided to call ... and sold few exhibits. Andrew became depressed and believed that the "fine art world" had rejected his art as old fashioned and irrelevant. 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 ... v...

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... 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 name was omitted in the credits and since decided to call ... and sold few exhibits. Andrew became depressed and believed that the "fine art world" had rejected his art as old fashioned and irrelevant. 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 ... v...

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... School in Pittsburgh in 1945. This same year he entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) where he majored in pictorial design. Upon, graduation Warhol moved to New York where he found steady work as a commercial artist. He worked as an illustrator for several magazines including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and The ... I. Miller. His first assignment was for Glamour magazine for an article titled "Success is a Job in New York." "Throughout the 1950's, Warhol enjoyed a successful career as a commercial artist, winning several commendations from the Art Dir...

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... mass-media culture of advertising, movies and television, and consumer goods would all take part in the subject for this new kind of art. Many artists jumped in on this exciting and enjoyable opportunity to have some fun with popular everyday activities in this ... of Czechoslovak immigrant parents. Throughout his life Warhol worked for magazine companies and had a big role in the media in general. Warhol then moved to New York and invented the blotted line technique, which lead to an interest in the serigraph technique also referred as silk-screening. Warhol was an American, and ... di...

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... , "Every person will be world famous for fifteen minutes". During his life, he graduated from Carnegie Institute of technology in Pittsburg with a fine arts degree. After that he moved to New York City, where he found design jobs in advertising. Before long he had begun specializing in illustrations of shoes. His work appeared in Glamour Magazine and Vogue Magazine. In the ... motivation was just the opposite. The most famous of the paintings during it's time, was the paintings of thirty- two depictions of Campbell Soup cans. One in particular, "Campbell's Soup Box", is a good example of...

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... , "Every person will be world famous for fifteen minutes". During his life, he graduated from Carnegie Institute of technology in Pittsburg with a fine arts degree. After that he moved to New York City, where he found design jobs in advertising. Before long he had begun specializing in illustrations of shoes. His work appeared in Glamour Magazine and Vogue Magazine. In the ... motivation was just the opposite. The most famous of the paintings during it's time, was the paintings of thirty- two depictions of Campbell Soup cans. One in particular, "Campbell's Soup Box", is a good example of...

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• Grade Level: High School