Research Guides: Andy Warhol: Biography

Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 - February 22, 1987)

In 1960, the year Warhol began to paint, he created groundbreaking works of pop art, a movement that had originated in England in the early 1950s. Lord and Taylor's department store on Fifth Avenue displayed enlargements of his paintings of the Dick Tracy comic strip in 1961. The seminal “New Realists” exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery solidified his position as the leading pop artist. After 1964 he was represented by the New York dealer Leo Castelli (1907–1999), who handled most of the pop artists' work. Warhol quickly became notorious for his paintings of Campbell's soup cans, first exhibited at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles in 1962. Continue . . .

Source: Pohlad, Mark B. "Warhol, Andy (1928–1987)." St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, edited by Thomas Riggs, 2nd ed., vol. 5, St. James Press, 2013, pp. 300-302. From Gale Virtual Reference database.

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The Warhol The Andy Warhol Museum.
The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts was established in 1987. In accordance with Andy Warhol's will, its mission is the advancement of the visual arts.
Reading Color: Looking Through Language in Warhol A criticism is presented of the artistic persona of artist Andy Warhol through textual analysis, focusing on the perceptual interplay of Warhol's art, notably of his 1963 painting "Mustard Race Riot." It examines the complex experience generated by the political painting, recognizing the painting as an example of a political intervention. It cites the book "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again, and its approach in confronting Warhol's artistic persona.
The Passion of Andy Warhol The article offers information on Andy Warhol, an American artist, film director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.
Andy Warhol: Computational Thinking, Computational Process. This article positions Andy Warhol as a model for computational thinking and art-making, linking him to concepts in new media art. Warhol's work is analyzed for its variability in form generation and output, both in painting and on the early Amiga computer.
Something One Recognizes Yet Can't See: Andy Warhol in and as Media. The article discusses the life and work of American artist, director, and producer Andy Warhol.
The Case For Andy Warhol What's the deal with Warhol, and is he worth your time and consideration?

From Films On Demand Database:

Andy Warhol: Images of an Image At once banal and provocative, the works of Andy Warhol sardonically comment on the ubiquity of mass media in modern America. This program takes a look at the Pop Art movement and the life of Warhol through a penetrating investigation of his deadpan Ten Lizes. The painting exemplifies his fascination with—and his indifference to—celebrities as objects no less commodified than a simple can of soup. (31 minutes)
Andy Warhol - Soup Cans and Superstars: How Pop Art Changed the World Warhol recognized that anything could be turned into a commodity. He constructed a persona to embody his mechanical art style, beginning with Campbell's soup cans in 1962. Sooke discusses Warhol's obsessions with celebrity and death, visible in "Marilyn Diptych." A BBC Production.
Andy Warhol: Prison of Consumerism Andy Warhol's art seemed to embrace consumerism. Graham-Dixon believes Warhol's series of Campbell's soup prints comments on the limited variation in America's consumerist culture. A BBC Production.
Pop Art and Andy Warhol In the 1960s Andy Warhol is pop art's most famous son. This is never a very clear movement but is the first 20th Century art movement since Futurism to embrace the rhythms of city life.
Andy Warhol: The Texan, Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg This episode of Masterworks presents Andy Warhol's 1963 silkscreen ink on canvas, "The Texan, Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg." Hear analysis of this work by an art historian and see this painting and other paintings by the artist. The narrator presents the works of other artists for comparison and to help the viewer gain deeper insight in to this masterpiece.