Sources vary about when Andy came to New York, which isn't surprising considering his reputation of not quite telling the truth. Every time Andy was asked about his past he would change the story a bit. He once said,"I'd prefer to remain a mystery. I never give my background, and anyway, I make it all up different every time I'm asked." It is suspected that he lived at home with his family in McKeesport, Pennsylvania from his birth on August 6, 1928, until he graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1949, and that he moved to New York after his graduation. His father, Andrej Warhola, was from Czechoslovakia, and his mother, Julia Zavacky Warhola, was from present day Slovakia.

Andy's early works had a kind of humor to them. People admired how easily he drew things and how precise they were, but mainly people were intrigued by the whimsical touch of his style. The start of his career (in the 1950s) involved a lot of commercial work. This is something that most of the artists of that time, such as Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, were involved in to support themselves. Andy soon began receiving many awards from several institutions and he illustrated several books and comic strips. In 1953, Fritzie Miller, the wife of I. Miller, became Andy's agent. Andy started doing more and more shows. The Museum of Modern Art even used one of his shoe drawings in an exhibition. Andy once said," If they told me to draw a shoe, I'd do it, and if they told me to correct it, I would ... after all that 'correction', those commercial drawings would have feelings... The process of doing work in commercial art was machinelike, but the attitude had feeling to !

Andy continued to create films based on the rumors of Hollywood and the secret lives of transvestites and drag queens themes which were all extremely fascinating to him. He was always friends with people who were considered wild or lowlifes to much of society, but this is what was admireable about him. He managed to have friends from all sorts of social scenes.

Andy was always very shy and inarticulate, but he went to all the parties to find work and discover what was going on in the art scene. People were fascinated by his unique personality and he quickly became well known. Andy became friends with a man named Charles Lisanby and together, in 1956, they travelled the world and its museums. Andy was always sketching and when Lisanby asked him what he really wanted from life, he replied, "I want to be Matisse." Lisanby understood that Andy meant he wanted to be as famous and skilled as Matisse. Andy began to befriend people with high social status and many of those people eventually became the subjects of his silk screen prints starting in the early 1960s.

Andy once said, "The artificial fascinates me, the bright and shiny." He was so intrigued by Hollywood and its stars and was often seen as a voyeur. He was always interested in the lives of celebrities, and although he became friends with many of them, he hardly got involved in their racy, partying kind of lifestyles due, perhaps, to his shy persona.

After this strange occurrence, Andy only made a couple more films. In 1969 he acquired a video camera and started to work regularly with video. He also became a contributor to Interview magazine which became a monthly journal on films and people in the industry. In 1971 he began the taping of what he called the Factory Diaries which were recordings of various Factory visitors and everyday life at the studio. He also wrote a play called Pork which was based on life at the Factory. It was shown in New York and London

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