Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987), along with Picasso, is perhaps the most recognized and influential artist of the Twentieth Century. King of the Pop Artists, Warhol gleaned his subject matter from mass culture— Campbell’s soup cans, Coca-Cola bottles, celebrity headshot—and his painting techniques, most notably his use of silkscreen, from commercial and serial reproduction processes. Warhol had an uncanny, even precocious understanding of how the media shapes our view of people and events. The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, are among the institutions worldwide that collect his work.