Andy Warhol Biography

Andrew Warhola or famously known as Andy Warhol was one of the most popular painter, printmaker, and filmmaker of his time. Andy’s art was mostly directed towards the pop culture public. People who really took interest in his art were Hollywood’s famous actors and actresses. Also people of modern ideas and innovators really sprung towards his style. He grew up in a very religious family that spent most of their time in church. His parents were Slovakian immigrants and Andy was the youngest of three sons. Julia, his mother, was an embroider and his father Ondrej was a construction worker. From the start his parents knew that their youngest son was different.(Quora.) At a young age Andy was quiet and had a feminine sense about him. This made …show more content…
As he grew up he separated himself from the religious beliefs. However the setting in which they spent all this church time did have an unconscious effect on him. The back walls of the church were covered in two-dimensional portraits of biblical figures which shows because most of Andy’s paintings and prints were portraits of celebrities. He was also raised to be himself which was unlike the normal way because in the early 1930’s and 40’s having feminine qualities in a young boy was unexcitable and even more so in a church community. Two years after Andy’s father died he received news that his mother was sick and had cancer. This was another future inspiration because while his mother was sick his brother had cooked Campbell’s soup and sandwiches for him to eat every day for the six weeks that their mother was sick. One that has heard of Andy Warhol may know that his Campbell soup pictures were monumentally famous in the 60’s. Since Andy used so many different mediums his process varied but, his content ranged anywhere from soup cans to Hollywood icons to homosexual …show more content…
Also another technique he became widely known for was the printmaking style. Most artist at the time were creating one piece that was for everyone to see. But, Warhol was doing something completely different he was creating prints of art which was new to the art world. People went crazy for the printed style it gave people the chance to have their one and not just owned by one person. During the 60s’ Andy opened his own art studio which he named “The Factory”. This studio quickly became the New York’s cultural hotspot which the richest socialist and celebrities attended. A hit song was even written about the Factory, “Walk on the Wild Side”. This is when Andy realized being famous was very important to him, he even stated that life without being famous wasn’t worth