"I never wanted to be a painter.
I wanted to be a tap dancer."
andy warhol
By: Sarah Keck
Warhol
The Road To Fame
Education + Early
Career
- 1945-1949: Pictorial design at Carnegie Mellon University
- 1950's: Commercial illustrator in NYC
- 1960: Began using advertisements and comic strips in his paintings.
From Commercial Artist to Celebrated Pop Artist
Pop Art
- Materialism
- Mass-produced commercial goods
- Mass media
Underground Filmmaker
Andy Warhol:
Middle/Late Career
- 1964: Moved to a house on the Upper East Side, named "The Factory"
- 1960s-1970s: Re-focused his attention to strictly film. Created 280 films and over 4.000 videos, ranging from a few minutes to 24 hours (The Art Story)
Overview
"Vinyl"
"Eat"
First Pop Star of the Art World
- Successful magazine and ad
illustrator
- Celebrated pop artist
- Performance art
- Filmmaking
- Video installations
- Writing
"Installation of Campbell's Soup Cans" (1962)
"What makes
art, art?"