Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol Live Exhibition @ Musee des Beaux-Arts

September 25 th 2008 - January 18 th 2009

(August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), known as Andy Warhol, was an American artist and a central figure in the movement known as POP ART. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, an avant-garde filmmaker, a record producer, an author, and a public figure known for his membership in wildly diverse social circles that included bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy aristocrats.

Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[1] Andy was the third child of his parents, Ondrej (Andrew) Warhola and Julia Warhola. His parents were working-class immigrants of Lemkos-Rusyns (Ruthenian) ethnicity from Mezőlaborc, now Medzilaborce, of Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Warhol showed an early artistic talent and studied commercial art at the School of Fine Arts at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh (now Carnegie Mellon University). In 1949, he moved to New York City and began a successful career in magazine illustration and advertising