Biography for

Andy Warhol
Date of Birth
6 August 1928, Forest City, Pennsylvania, USA

Date of Death
22 February 1987, New York City, New York, USA (complications from gall
bladder surgery)

Mini Biography

The son of Ruthenian immigrants, Andy Warhol studied art at the Carnegie
Institute of Technology. He worked as an advertising designer before becoming,
in effect, the Father of Pop Art with his silk-screened pictures of Campbell's Soup
cans and distorted images of Marilyn Monroe. He started directing films in 1963,
if "directing" is the right word - most of his early work simply consisted of
pointing the camera at something (a man asleep, the Empire State Building) and
leaving it running, often for hours. His films gradually grew more sophisticated,
with scripts and soundtracks, although they were generally performed by
members of the Warhol "factory" - assorted groupies with little acting talent.

After a near-fatal shooting by an unstable fan on June 3, 1968, Warhol retired

from direct involvement in filmmaking, and under former assistant Paul
Morrissey, the Warhol films became increasingly commercial. Warhol spent the
1970s and 1980s as a major pop culture figure, constantly attending parties and
providing patronage to younger artists. He died in 1987 after a routine
gallbladder operation at age 58.

Andrew Warhola was born on 6 August 1928 in Forest City, Pennsylvania, USA, a
small town northeast of Scranton. His father, Ondrej, came from the Austria-
Hungary Empire (now Slovakia) in 1912, and sent for his mother, Julia Zavacky
Warhola, in 1921. His father worked as a construction worker and later as a coal
miner. Around some time, the family moved to Pittsburgh. During his teenage
years, Andy suffered from several nervous breakdowns. Overcoming this, he
graduated from Schenley High School in Pittsburgh in 1945, and enrolled in the
Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University), graduating in
June 1949. During college.

Personal Quotes

I would rather watch somebody buy their underwear than read a book they
wrote.
Roy Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was a prominent American pop
artist. During the 1960s his paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York
City and along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist and others he became a
leading figure in the new art movement. His work defined the basic premise of pop art better
than any other through parody. [2] Favoring the old-fashioned comic strip as subject matter,
Lichtenstein produced hard-edged, precise compositions that documented while it parodied
often in a tongue-in-cheek humorous manner. His work was heavily influenced by both
popular advertising and the comic book style. He himself described Pop Art as, "not
'American' painting but actually industrial painting".[3]

Roy Lichtenstein was born in Manhattan into an upper-middle-class New York City[1] family
and attended public school until the age of 12. He then enrolled at Manhattan's Franklin
School for Boys, remaining there for his secondary education.[1] Art was not included in the
school's curriculum; Lichtenstein first became interested in art and design as a hobby.[4] He
was an avid jazz fan, often attending concerts at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.[4] He
frequently drew portraits of the musicians playing their instruments.[4] After graduation from
Franklin, Lichtenstein enrolled in summer classes at the Art Students League of New York,
where he worked under the tutelage of Reginald Marsh.[3]

Lichtenstein then left New York to study at the Ohio State University, which offered studio
courses and a degree in fine arts.[1] His studies were interrupted by a three-year stint in the
army during and after World War II between 1943 and 1946.[1] Lichtenstein returned home to
visit his dying father and was discharged from the army under the G.I. Bill.[4] He returned to
studies in Ohio under the supervision of one of his teachers, Hoyt L. Sherman, who is widely
regarded to have had a significant impact on his future work (Lichtenstein would later name a
new studio he funded at OSU as the Hoyt L. Sherman Studio Art Center).[5] Lichtenstein
entered the graduate program at Ohio State and was hired as an art instructor, a post he held
on and off for the next ten years. In 1949 Lichtenstein received a M.F.A. degree from the
Ohio State University and in the same year married Isabel Wilson who was previously
married to Ohio artist Michael Sarisky (Isabel divorced Roy Lichtenstein in 1965).[6] In 1951
Lichtenstein had his first one-man exhibition at the Carlebach Gallery in New York.[1][7]

He moved to Cleveland in the same year, where he remained for six years, although he
frequently traveled back to New York. During this time he undertook jobs as varied as a
draftsman to a window decorator in between periods of painting.[1] His work at this time
fluctuated between Cubism and Expressionism.[4] In 1954 his first son, David Hoyt
Lichtenstein, now a songwriter, was born. He then had his second son, Mitchell Lichtenstein
in 1956.[3] In 1957 he moved back to upstate New York and began teaching again.[3] It was at
this time that he adopted the Abstract Expressionism style, a late convert to this style of
painting.[4] From 1970 until his death, Lichtenstein split his time between New York city and
a house near the beach in Southampton.[8]