Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Andy Warhol Biography ...



Andy Warhol's artwork ranged in many forms of media that include hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music.

The talented Andy Warhol was born in 1928 on the 6th of August in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania. Life was hard for them in Pennsylvania so they moved to the United States for a better life. His parents are from the country of Slovakia.

Growing up as a kid was always hard but for Andy it was pretty difficult especially having a disease called Chorea when he was only 8. During this time Andy was really sick so he spent a lot of time in bed. In bed Andy Collected old magazines and listened to the radio. His mother was really helpful every time Andy will finish a colouring page in his book his mother would give him a chocolate bar .

Warhol showed early artistic talent and studied commercial art at the School of Fine Arts at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1949, he moved to New York City and began a career in magazine illustration and advertising.


Warhol died of heart failure hours after undergoing gall bladder surgery on February 22, 1987, in New York City at the age of 58. May he rest in peace and will always be loved for his lovely art...

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