During his career, Warhol meticulously documented his celebrity-filled social life through photographs and daily recordings, later published posthumously as The Andy Warhol Diaries (1989). He died of …

Warhol graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh with a Bachelor of Fine Art in Pictorial Design in 1949 and soon after moved to New York City to …

Dec 7, 2025 · Andy Warhol, American artist and filmmaker, an initiator and leading exponent of the Pop art movement of the 1960s whose mass-produced art apotheosized the supposed banality of the …

Andy Warhol was the most successful and highly paid commercial illustrator in New York even before he began to make art destined for galleries. Nevertheless, his screenprinted images of Marilyn Monroe, …

Born to working-class Rusyn immigrant parents in Pittsburgh, Warhol began his career as a successful commercial illustrator in New York before transitioning to silkscreen painting. At the height of his Pop …

Warhol moved to New York City at age 21 hoping to succeed as a commercial designer. His success was swift: Within days he was illustrating stylish women’s shoes for a spread in Glamour magazine, …

Andy Warhol was an American artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

Fascinated by consumer culture, the media, and fame, Andy Warhol himself became one of the most famous and important artists of the twentieth century.

More than any other artist of his generation, Andy Warhol understood how photographic images reflect and shape the way we see the world.

Andy Warhol American, 1928–1987 Associated art terms include Pop art and Silkscreen.