(1928 - 1987)
Andy Warhol, one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, was born to Czechoslovakian parents in Pittsburgh, USA. He studied painting and drawing at the Carnegie Institute of Technology between 1945 and 1949, before becoming a highly successful commercial advertising artist in the 1950s. Pop Art’s origins lay in the reaction to Abstract Expressionism found in the mid 1950s As his art developed over the 1960s, he fused the over-used images of popular culture, mass production, Hollywood glamour and the media with notions of what constituted ‘fine art’. His infamous personality brought him as much fame as his art or films. This portrait is one of his later works, made in 1985, shortly before his death in 1987 from a complication during routine surgery.
