(Pop) According to The Art Story (Andy), his parents were named Ondrej and Julia Warhola, immigrants from Czechoslovakia. Ulja was a causal artist who supported Andy and gave him his first camera at age nine. As he grew older, Warhol developed a nervous disorder that would often keep him inside the house. Being inside the house exposed him to radio and television. This exposure to current events in his younger years is noted to be the cause of his obsession with pop culture and celebrities as he grew older. Sadly, Andy’s father passed away when he was only fourteen years old. The money that family earned was said to be used for one of the children’s higher education and Andy was chosen as the one who would benefit the most from a college …show more content…
Warhol’s career is all about pop art. First off, what exactly is pop art? According to Schroeder, pop art is the visualization of subjects that anybody could recognize in a split second. Warhol used items such as Coca-Cola and Campbell’s Soup in his artwork because, we use items similar to these everyday. However, when we look at them, we miss so much. Pop art helps us see what we miss. Pop art is the direct reaction to the, dominant at the beginning of his career, abstract expressionism. Pop art gained success in the early 1960’s. Throughout his career, Warhol was made an icon of the movement and was even dubbed the “Pope of