Andy Warhol (After)

The plastic artist Andy Warhol (Pittsburgh, United States, 1928 – New York, 1987) became the best known representative of pop art, an artistic trend in vogue during the 1950s and 1960s that was inspired by mass culture. The son of Slovak emigrants, he began his art studies at the Carnegie Institute of Technology between 1945 and 1949. In this last year, already established in New York, he began his career as an advertising illustrator for various magazines such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Seventeen and The New Yorker.