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Andy Warhol

Andrew Warhola is considered to be the “founder and a major figure of the pop art movement�. He was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 1928. He graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, where he majored in pictorial design. He worked as an illustrator in many magazines including Vogue, Harpers Bazaar and the New Yorker, but, his big break was in 1949, when he illustrated for Glamour Magazine. Andy Warhol was born with the name Andrew Warhola, he dropped the “a� when his credit for his drawing read, “Drawings by Andy Warhol�. Warhol was obsessed by ambition to become famous and wealthy, and he knew the only was to achieve this was with hard work.
In the 1950s, he moved to a place on East 75th Street, his mother moved with him. Warhol had successful career as a commercial artist, he won several commendations from the Art Director's Club and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. In 1952, the artist had his first individual show at the Hugo......

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