ANDY WARHOL
Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola on
August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
 Andy’s father Andrej Warhola and mother
Julia Warhola struggled to support Andy and
his three siblings in a two room shack-like
apartment.
 Growing up during the Great Depression in
Pennsylvania, Warhol faced an unstable
household, further complicated by a rare
disease called chorea.
 What is Chorea? How do you think this
effected Warhol as a young student?
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In 1942, Andy’s father died from a
liver disease.
Warhol's mother claimed her
husband's death was caused by
drinking "poison water" at a
construction site in Virginia where
he did work.
Warhol was fourteen at the time and
did not attend his father's funeral.
Warhol’s mother was afraid that
the funeral might lead to a
recurrence of Andy's "nervous
condition".
Warhol hid under a bed upstairs
during the wake and refused to
come down to see his father laid
out in in the open casket in the
living room.
Julia Warhola
Three years after Warhol’s
father died, his mother
was diagnosed with
colon cancer.
Andy again went into to a
depression. His brother,
Julia Warhola took care
of Andy and made him
a sandwich and
Campbell's soup
everyday.
Andy was extremely close
to his mother for the fact
she encouraged Andy
to draw and explorer
the arts.
What inspired Warhol?
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document to answer the question
above.
Warhol and School
 After graduating from Schenley
High School, he studied painting
and design at the Carnegie
Institute of Technology.
 Warhol originally intended to
study art education at the
University of Pittsburgh in order to
become an art teacher, but he
changed his mind and applied to
the Carnegie Institute to study
pictorial design with the intention
of becoming a commercial
illustrator.
 In 1949 Warhol graduated from
the Carnegie Institute of
Technology in Pittsburgh with a
Bachelor of Fine Arts in pictorial
design.
At college Warhol was exposed to the work of Joseph Cornell and
Marcel Duchamp. These artist had influenced and inspired Warhol’s
later works.
Marcel Ducamp
Joseph Cornell
What do Joseph Cornell and
Warhol have in common in their
artwork?
Click on the photo below to get a hint.
Answer the question in your open word document.
Warhol and New York
In 1949 Warhol moves to Manhattan
with Philip Pearlstein, a friend from
college. Pearlstein would later go on
to become an important realist
painter.
Warhol and Pearlstein subleased an
eighth-floor walkup tenement
apartment on St. Mark's Place for
the summer.
According to Pearlstein, "The bathtub
was in the kitchen and it was usually
full of roaches, incredible roaches.”
When they moved a few months later
to the large front room on West 23rd
Street, Andy sent out address
change cards in small envelopes
filled with glitter announcing, "I've
moved from one roach-ridden
apartment to another."
The start of an artist.
One of Andy Warhol's
first free-lance jobs was
at Glamour magazine.
He went on to become
an extremely successful
commercial artist,
working for most of the
major fashion
magazines throughout
the fifties, doing album
covers for Columbia
records, designing
Christmas cards, book
jackets and retail ad
campaigns, including
the famous shoe ads
for I. Miller in the midfifties.
How did this illustration impact
Warhol’s life?
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search for information about this
illustration on the web.
Answer the question above in your
word document.
Andy as an commercial artist
At the height of his career as a
commercial artist, Warhol was
earning one hundred
thousand dollars a year, and
on the I. Miller account alone
he made fifty thousand dollars
one year.
Eventually he had to hire
assistants to help him keep up
with his assignments. He even
enlisted the services of his
mother, who followed him
from Pittsburgh to New York
soon after he started making
enough money to support
them both.
New York and Warhol’s Mom
Andy moved into his new home with his
mother on the Upper East Side in
Manhattan.
Andy's mother was, in effect, one of his
early assistants by her handwriting
and retaining her quirky misspellings
in his self-published portfolios/books,
he also used her writing on album
covers.
She would misspell words and start over
again, and the writing would start
small and get bigger and slant
upwards. Finally, Andy told her just
to do it; then he cut the whole thing
apart and pasted it up so that it
made some bit of sense. She was
known as 'Andy Warhol's mother'!
Paintings
In 1960, Andy makes his first paintings, based on comic strips: Dick
Tracy, Saturday’s Popeye, Superman and two of Coca-Cola
bottles.
What is silk screening?
According to the
Warhol museum,
Warhol first used silk
screening in the
early 1962 for his one
dollar and two dollar
bill paintings.
Click on image and
research what the is
process of silk
screening. Write a
brief description in
your word
document.
Campbell’s Soup
In 1962 Andy had his
first solo pop
exhibition. This was
held at Irving Blum's
Ferus Gallery in West
Hollywood featured
Warhol's series of 32
different canvases of
Campbell's soup
cans.
A nearby
supermarket piled up
real Campbell's soup
cans in their window,
advertising them as
"the real thing for only
29 cents a can.”
Answer the following question in your word document:
What correlations did Warhol have with
Campbells soup cans?
Irvin Blum
Six of the Warhol individual
paintings were sold for $100
each. Blum ended up getting
the buyers to relinquish their
ownership so that he could
get keep the set together,
and bought the entire series
for $1,000.00 from Warhol,
paying him $100.00 a month.
A year after Warhol died,
Irving Blum was offered $10
million for the paintings. They
are currently on permanent
loan to the National Gallery of
Art in Washington, D.C.
1st POP Exhibition
In 1962 Andy had his
first solo pop exhibit in
NYC.
Warhol's work on
exhibit included the
Marilyn diptych, 100
Soup Cans, 100 Coke
Bottles and 100 Dollar
Bills.
POP ART?
 Use your word
document to answer
the following.
 Describe what the art
movement of pop
was?
 List at least 3 different
pop artist and attach
a image with a title for
each artist listed.
 Click on image to get
you start and research.
The Factory
In 1962 Andy found
a loft which became
his studio known as
“The Factory.”
International Fame
Andy had his first
solo exhibition in
Paris in 1964. This
exhibit featured his
flower series. Andy
began
experimenting with
sculpture with his
Brillo boxes and
eventually began
his self-portrait
series.
Brillo Boxes
 Click on the image and view the interview with Warhol about his
Brillo boxes.
RIP
 November 1972,
Andy’s mother died.
Andy did not mention
his mother's death to
any of this close friends.
Late as 1976, when
friends asked about his
mother, Andy said,
“'Oh, she's great. But
she doesn't get out of
bed much.”
1973
 October 18, 1973,
Andy Warhol breaks a
record by selling his
paintings from the
early sixties which sold
for $135,000.
 Andy did painted an
endangered species
series and it was
known as his last
painting series and
some ad series as well.
1987
 February 22, 1987
Andy Warhol dies
from complications
of a past surgery
due to his
gallbladder.
Questions:
 Why did Andy Warhol choose to paint Celebrities
 If Warhol were still alive, what celebrities do you think he
would paint?
 What is your favorite Warhol piece and why?
 What are some of the other mediums Warhol used?
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