Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928-February 22, 1987), known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as 'Pop Art'. When he was about nine years old, he received his first camera. After graduating, Warhol moved to New York City and he became one of the most successful illustrators of the 1950s, winning numerous awards. In the late 1950s, Warhol made his first Pop paintings.

Andy Warhol en varias etapas de su vida.

Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, avant-garde filmmaker, record producer, author, and member of highly diverse social circles that included bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy patrons.

Warhol showed early artistic talent and studied commercial art at the School of Fine Arts at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, (now Carnegie Mellon University). In 1949, he moved to New York City.

He adopted the silk screen printmaking process as a technique for making paintings. His earliest silkscreening in painting involved hand-drawn images though this soon progressed to the use of photographically derived silkscreening in paintings.

Serigrafia de Marilyn Monroe.

It was during the 1960s that Warhol began to make paintings of iconic American products such as Campbell's Soup Cans and Coca-Cola bottles, as well as paintings of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Troy Donahue, Muhammad Ali and Elizabeth Taylor. He founded 'The Factory', his studio during these years, and gathered around himself a wide range of artists, writers, musicians, and underground celebrities.

'Cinco botellas de Coca-Cola',1962. Serigrafía sobre tela,

Compared to the success and scandal of Warhol's work in the 1960s, the 1970s were a much quieter decade, as Warhol became more entrepreneurial. Warhol devoted much of his time to rounding up new, rich patrons for portrait commissions– including Sha of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, his wife Empress Farah Pahlavi, Mick Jagger, Liza Minnelli, John Lennon, Diana Ross and Brigitte Bardot.

Warhol had a re-emergence of critical and financial success in the 1980s, partially due to his friendships with a number of prolific younger artists, who were dominating the "bull market" of 1980s New York art. By this period, Warhol was being criticized for becoming merely a "business artist".

In 1986 he paints what will be his last works, self-portraits and portraits of Lenin and Mao Tse Tung.

Warhol realizó la portada de 'Made in Spain' de Miguel Bosé y el diseño de 'Brillo'.

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Warhol se hizo famoso en todo el mundo por su trabajo como pintor, cineasta de vanguardia, productor, autor y miembro de círculos sociales muy diversos que incluían bohemios, distinguidos intelectuales, celebridades de Hollywood y acaudalados mecenas.

Warhol mostró un talento artístico precoz y estudió arte comercial en la escuela de Bellas Artes en el Carnegie Institute of Technology de Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, (ahora Universidad Carnegie Mellon). En 1949, se trasladó a Nueva York.

Él adoptó el proceso de impresión de serigrafía como técnica para la elaboración de pinturas. Su primer serigrafiado en pintura incluia imágenes pintadas a mano, aunque esto pronto derivó al uso de la fotografía en las serigrafías.

Fue durante la década de los 60 cuando Warhol empezó a pintar cuadros de productos estadounidenses emblemáticos, como las latas de sopa Campbell y las botellas de Coca-Cola, así como pinturas de famosos como Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Troy Donahue, Muhammad Ali y Elizabeth Taylor. Fundó 'The Factory', su estudio durante estos años, y reunió a su alrededor una amplia gama de artistas, escritores, músicos y celebridades alternativas.

En comparación con el éxito y el escándalo de la obra de Warhol en la década de 1960, la década de los 70 fue mucho más tranquila, como Warhol se hizo más emprendedor. Warhol dedicó gran parte de su tiempo a rondar a nuevos y ricos clientes para retratos remunerados, incluyendo al Sha de Irán Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, su esposa la emperatriz Farah Pahlavi, Mick Jagger, Liza Minnelli, John Lennon, Diana Ross y Brigitte Bardot.

Warhol tuvo un resurgimiento de crítica y financiero en la década de 1980, en parte debido a su amistad con una serie de prolíficos artistas más jóvenes, que estaban dominando el "mercado alcista" de arte de Nueva York 1980. Por esta época, Warhol estaba siendo criticado por ser simplemente un "artista comercial".

En 1986 pinta lo que serán sus últimas obras, autorretratos y retratos de Lenin y Mao Tse Tung.