Andy Warhola was born in 1928. There has for years been quite a bit of confusion to where and when Andy Warhol was born, but according to Andy's two older brothers and the birth certificate that was filed in Pittsburgh in 1945, he was born on August 6th in Pittsburgh. (www.warhol.dk) Warhol was a graduate of the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1949. After he moved to New York City and gained his success as a commercial artist. Andy got his first break in August 1949, when Glamour Magazine wanted him to illustrate a feature entitled "Success in a Job in New York." But by accident the credit read "Drawings by Andy Warhol" and that is how he dropped the "a" in his last name.

A particular favorite advertisement form that Warhol likes to use was product labels. You will see quite a few examples of this in some of his work. (Grol

At the beginning of his work, he started out with the making comic strip "reproductions." They really shouldn't be considered reproductions because they aren't an accurate portrayal of the product. Some of his pieces such as the thirty-two painting collection of Campbell's Soup Cans, are almost identical to the models he used. While others have a looser quality and are merely starting points on which to begin. (Coplans pg 47)

One of the last serial sets that Warhol created before moving on from painting was of flowers. The flowers were produced in an extreme variety of sizes and quantities. These were on display in 1964. The original flowers were taken from a women magazine. Unlike most of his earlier works, these reproductions were touched up by hand on the screen. These are also different in that they do not represent anything to Warhol. They are strictly decorative. The colors used in the painting aren't used to symbolize anything but just to bring out color in decoration. In all there were about nine hundred of the flower painting made in Warhol's studio, other wise known as "The Factory" to him. These were among the very last of Warhol's paintings, in the remainder of his life he concentrated on movie making. (Crone pg 30) Even though he was never known for his movies, he did make a name for himself through his paintings.

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