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Andy Warhol

American artist, film director, and producer (1928-1987) · United States · Artists · Died at 58

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He turned soup cans and Marilyn Monroe into high art, then predicted everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. Warhol made repetition into philosophy and the Factory into a scene, collapsing the wall between commerce and gallery until Pop art became the language of the late 20th century.

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1987Died22 February 19871969“Scripts bore me. It's much more exciting not to know what's going to happen. I don't think that plot is important.”In their wordsWarhol explained that the lack of a plot in Blue Movie was intentional (1969)

1967“I think of myself as an American artist: I like it here.. .I feel I represent the U.S. in my art but I'm not a social critic.”In their words17 March 1967Quote of Warhol in Andy, My true Story 3, Gretchen Berg, Los Angeles Free Press (17 March 1967); as quoted in Andy Warhol, retrospective,

“If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface; of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.”In their words17 March 1967In: Andy, My true Story 3, Gretchen Berg, Los Angeles Free Press (17 March 1967); as quoted in Andy Warhol, retrospective, New York and

1963“If an artist can't do anymore, then he should just quit; and an artist ought to be able to change his style without feeling bad.”In their wordspp. 116-19

“I guess it was the big plane crash picture [why Warhol started his 'Death'-series], the front page of a newspaper: '129 DIED'.”In their wordspp. 116-19

1962“We went to see Dr No [first James Bond film, 1962] at Fort-Second Street. It's a fantastic movie, so cool.”In their wordspp. 116-19

1928Born6 August 1928

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Warhol (right) as a toddler with his mother, Julia, and his brother, John, c. 1930Warhol (right) as a toddler with his mother, Julia, and his brother, John, c. 1930Warhol as a student at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, 1947Warhol as a student at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, 1947Illustrations by Warhol in Glamour, February 1953Illustrations by Warhol in Glamour, February 1953From 1960 to 1974, Warhol lived at 1342 Lexington Avenue in Carnegie Hill, Manhattan.From 1960 to 1974, Warhol lived at 1342 Lexington Avenue in Carnegie Hill, Manhattan.Campbell's Soup Cans (1961-62)Campbell's Soup Cans (1961-62)Warhol with Robert Indiana and the Factory cats, Black Lace and White Pussy, in 1964. In the background is Warhol's Most Wanted Men (1964).Warhol with Robert Indiana and the Factory cats, Black Lace and White Pussy, in 1964. In the background is Warhol's Most Wanted Men (1964).Warhol amid his Brillo Box sculptures at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, 1968Warhol amid his Brillo Box sculptures at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, 1968

In their own words 10

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  1. Scripts bore me. It's much more exciting not to know what's going to happen. I don't think that plot is important.

    1969, Warhol explained that the lack of a plot in Blue Movie was intentional (1969), Own words

  2. In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.

    1968, Catalogue of an exhibition of his art in Stockholm, Sweden (1968), Own words

  3. I think of myself as an American artist: I like it here.. .I feel I represent the U.S. in my art but I'm not a social critic.

    Mar 17, 1967, Quote of Warhol in Andy, My true Story 3, Gretchen Berg, Los Angeles Free Press (17 March 1967); as quoted in Andy Warhol, retrospective,, Own words

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Born to working-class Rusyn immigrants in Pittsburgh in 1928, Andrew Warhola Jr. started as a commercial artist in New York before crossing into fine art with his early silkscreens - Campbell's Soup Can, Marilyn Diptych, Coca-Cola (3) - all from 1962. By the mid-1960s he'd moved into experimental film (Blow Job, Empire, Chelsea Girls) and turned his studio, the Factory, into a rotating carnival of drag queens, poets, bohemians, and Warhol superstars; he managed the Velvet Underground and staged the Exploding Plastic Inevitable multimedia events. After surviving an assassination attempt in 1968, the Factory became a business: he founded Interview, published The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism, painted Mao and Athletes and Last Supper, sat for commissioned portraits, launched two TV shows, and kept obsessive diaries of his social life. He died of cardiac arrhythmia at 58 in 1987, days after gallbladder surgery, leaving a market in his wake - Shot Sage Blue Marilyn sold for $195 million in 2022, the highest price ever paid for an American artist at auction.

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United States
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Lived 1928 to 1987 · aged 58

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