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His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s.
Warhol's art encompassed many forms of media, including hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music.
As age 8, Andy Warhol became very sick from complications from Chorea, a nervous system disorder. This left him bedridden for several months where he spent much of his time listening to the radio and collecting pictures of moviestars and growing in understanding of American culture of the period. His mother, an artist herself, also taught Andy how to draw. At age 9, Andy was given a camera and had a makeshift darkroom in his basement. He later stated, it was during this time of his life is where his artistic personality developed.
After graduating high school, Andy Warhol planned to become an art teacher, but then studied commercial art and began a career in magazine illustrating and advertising.
Warhol's work both as a commercial artist and later a fine artist displays a casual approach to image making, in which chance plays a role and mistakes and unintentional marks are tolerated.
Details of Renaissance Paintings (Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1482), 1984
Moonwalk, 1987
Female Fashion Figure, 1950s
Self-Portrait, 1986
Marilyn Monroe
Campbell Soup
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