Andy Warhol
The artificiality of consumer culture is the central theme of Andy Warhol’s work. Born in 1928 in the industrial city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he died in 1987 at the age of 59 in New York. His work comprised the whole range of the everyday and the trivial and also "images" of well known personalities or cult figures. His most famous works depicted Campbell's soup cans. Enlarged, hand-painted or silkscreened, framed, and hung in an art gallery, Warhol succeeded in turning these mundane images into ironic "art". Andy Warhol thus became one of the most influential figures of the Pop Art scene. After studying at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Warhol went to New York, where his work radically changed the prevailing views of art and aesthetics. With his absolute belief in the present, its objects and consumer goods, he created fascinating testimonials of our era in his "factory"
