Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 - February 22, 1987, USA) - founder of the magazine Interview, creator and producer of the rock band The Velvet Underground & Nico, artist, photographer, filmmaker, journalist and collector. A cult figure in the history of pop art movement and contemporary art.
Start a Career
In 1949, Andy Warhol designed the Joseph Horne's department store windows. At the end of the same year he started working as an illustrator for magazines Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour. He developed advertising campaigns for various brands, design cards, covers for the record company Columbia Records.
In the early 1950's. Andy Warhol was earning about $ 100 thousand per year. In 1952 he moved from Pittsburgh to New York my mother. In the same year Warhol received his first award "For the graphic arts" from the Club of art editors. In 1952 held a small exhibition of Andy Warhol. It included fifteen drawings to works of Truman Capote, which became bestsellers.
In 1959, Andy Warhol presented his work at the Guggenheim Museum.
In 1959 - 1963 years. Andy Warhol rented the top floor of a building located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Here he worked and organized exhibitions and parties.
In 1961, Andy Warhol began to paint and create illustrations in the style of pop art.
The flowering of creativity
In 1961, Andy Warhol began to produce paintings "Green bottles Coca-Cola» and «Soup Cans Campbell». He used the technique of silk-screen printing, with which you can endlessly re-create the same images. A large number of images of bottles Coca-Cola Andy Warhol explains: "This product consume - the president of the country, Elizabeth Taylor and the beggar who knows his Coca-Cola is not worse than the president." Monotonous repetition become a characteristic feature of his art - photographs and drawings of bottles of Coca-Cola were replaced by portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Elvis Presley, Audrey Hepburn and other works by Andy Warhol's famous worldwide as an art object era of mass consumption.
In 1962, after the death of Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol created the famous "Marilyn Diptych". Using the screen printing he inflicted on canvas 50 identical images of actress with 1953 photos made in the film "Niagara." The left side of the diptych was a canvas with 25 colorful images of Marilyn Monroe, right - simulated blurred negatives. The view was that Andy Warhol associated the contrast of the bar with the life and death of the actress.
In 1963, Andy Warhol bought the building in Manhattan, has equipped him in the studio and called the "Factory". Here he created about 2,000 paintings. On the "Factory" was going to a lot of outstanding people, such as Edie Sedgwick, Holly Woodley, Viva, Gerard Malanga, who helped him in the creation of new projects.
In 1963, Andy Warhol presented a series of works "Five Deaths", the theme of death and disaster.
In 1965, Andy Warhol exhibited his work at exhibitions in New York, Paris, Milan, Turin, Essen, Stockholm, Buenos Aires and Toronto.
In 1966, Andy Warhol created the rock band The Velvet Underground & Nico.
