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Known for his eccentric lifestyle including diverse social acquaintances, avant-garde films and visual art, Andy Warhol was perchance the most famous, modern and influential artisan of the 20th century.

From the start out of his art career until his death in 1987 from complicatednesses following gallbladder surgery, Andy was an ironically revered figure in the mainstream.

Andy was born Andrew Warhol in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 6, 1928. Due to a childhood sickness affecting his central nervous system, Andy’s extremities started out to move sporadically and he invented hypochondria and always dire something was wrong. As a child that stayed largely to himself and lived in fear, Andy’s artistic light started out to shine.

After studying at the School of Fine Arts and at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Andy moved to New York in 1949 and started a successful career as a magazine illustrator. Soon after, he became widely known and esteemed in the publicity circle for his pencil drawings, and he was quickly hired by RCA Records to design album covers.

By 1960, Warhol was a rightful artisan whose work was altogether original. He opened his firstborn one-man gallery exhibition in 1962 in LA, and also opened in New York the same year. Andy’s art was referred to as “pop” art, due to his paintings of soup cans and respective famous celebrities like Liz Taylor, Muhammad Ali and Elvis Presley.

However, it wasn’t all wine and roses for Warhol and his new brand of art. Critics blasted him for fundamentally merchandising out to the buyer with art that they felt required little talent to pull off. The art culture disagreed, however, and Warhol spearheaded a new pop art motion that witnessed a good deal of new artists following in his footsteps.

His workshop, named The Factory, was lined in aluminum foil and silver paint. It was an unconventional place to work, but perfectly fit the whimsical personality of the artist. He accumulated up a team of bohemians with strange names like Candy Darling, Viva and Ultra Violet and shot films in The Factory. Warhol was likewise a minor film star in the 1960s.

In 1968, one of Warhol’s Factory regulars, Valerie Solanas, attempted to assassinate him. Solanas injured curator Mario Amaya in the attack, who suffered only minor injures, and gravely wounded Warhol, who suffered complicatednesses from the attack until his death.

During the 1970s, Warhol’s focus shifted from the pop art to more commissioned portraits. He begun painting famous persons like Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson and even Chinese Communist dictator Mao Zedong.

Warhol would again immerse himself in the art mainstream in the 1980s. Befriending artists like David Salle, Jean-Michel Basquiat and other Neo-Expressionists of the era, Warhol again found he was seriously and financially successful. He also befriended a great deal of Hollywood celebrities and cherished the culture.

Although Warhol was never totally cherished by most critics in his time, he is percentage of an ultra exclusive club. Andy is one of the only artists to ever have a painting trade for $100 million. His painting of the Eight Elvises earned that, placing him alongside artists like Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and Gustav Klimt.

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