Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol, he’s one who has worked as many things: an American artist, director, and a producer. In fact, Andy worked as a commercial illustrator who was highly successful and well paid. He also has worked in art styles that many have left behind, and are very rarely used today. He worked on an art genre known as Pop Art, which started in the mid-1950s and hasn’t really been used since the late 1970s.

Pop art’s main message is based on a concept that there is no hierarchy of culture. Because of this, it was considered the most influential characteristics of pop art.

Though pop art may be one of his specialties, he had other skills as well. This style is known as video art, and like pop art, it hasn’t been used much ever since. This style of art started in 1965, this expensive technology gave interest to many experimental artists, one of them being Andy Warhol. If not understood, video art is based on the idea of works that gave attention to what they’ve seen on Television, producing parodies of advertising and television programs.

His other style is postmodern art, an art that brings up the idea of breaking down distinctions between both high and low-quality arts. It started in the 1950s and is still being used today.

Andy Warhol was born in the year of 1928, August 6th and died in the year 1987, February 22. And though he may have been well known for his art and his success, you can tell he was a good speaker by just reading one of his sayings. One of which is a message for those who judge art, and he’s said the following, “How can you say one style is better than another? You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week, or a Pop artist, or a realist, without feeling you’ve given up something. I think that would be so great, to be able to change styles. And I think that’s what’s going to happen, that’s going to be the whole new scene.”

Andy has started his work in 1952 and ended in before 1990, which is when he died. His cause of death was arrhythmia, a problem with the heart where it either beats too fast or slow. And even then, he died while still being active in his work.

Andy may have worked in jobs that can be considered somewhat easy for those who are talented with creative imagination. Andy learned how to manipulate popular taste and it may be that that’s brought him recognition to the public.

People say his drawings have much more personality than his pop art, commonly calling his drawings comical, and whimsical. This doesn’t only show his talent in his works, but in his free time too.

In the eyes of others, Andy may seem like someone who’s given into risks in order to do other works. And he has: he’d retired from one of his works in order to start making experimental films which have attracted many and was then considered one of the most important filmmakers. It is easy to say, Andy was has been an inspiration to many artists today.