Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol, whose name is synonymous with Pop Art, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. He studied art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology from 1945 to 1949. He then went to New York City where he became an illustrator until 1960 when he began making paintings based on comic strip characters such as Popeye, Dick Tracy, and Superman.

He turned from the prevailing Abstract-Expressionist styles and the emphasis on the artist’s emotion to a hard-line Realism, using many common images associated with the popular media such as a Campbell Soup can or a Coca-Cola bottle or Brillo pad.