When considering the life and works of Andy Warhol, one thing is agreed upon: for good or bad, he changed the visual construction of the world we live in. By the time of his death in 1987 he was ranked on the same level with Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock as one of the three most important and influential artists of this century. He was a working man, a social climber, a person who liked to build things, an acquirer of goods, and a known homosexual. These attributes all contributed to the interesting and complicated nature of his art.Andrew Warhola, was born August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest son of Czechoslovakian immigrants. Like millions of other families, Andrew's father could not find work and his early childhood was very difficult and deprived. After several years his family's financial situation improved and he attended a commercial design course at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute of Technology.
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autograph and sketch by Andy WarholAlthough he was very shy and had a strong fear of failure, he did very well there. Warhol's signature style used commercial silk screening techniques to create identical, mass produced images on canvas, then variations in color to give each print of an edition a different look. He quickly became a successful and highly paid commercial artist in the 1950's but desperately wished for fame as a fine artist. He was unsuccessful in his efforts and sold few exhibits. Andrew became depressed and believed that the 'fine art world' had rejected his art as old fashioned and irrelevant. Andy needed new ideas to help boost his creativity. He got several ideas from a woman named Muriel Latow; a gallery owner he knew. She advised him to paint what he loved most like money or what everybody would recognize, like soup...