1. Andy Warhol Pop Art

2. Warhol’s Life Born in 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Sick as a child, Warhol drew pictures in bed.
Studied commercial art at Carnegie Institute of Technology.
After graduating Warhol moved to New York City.
Warhol began illustrating for magazines and creating advertisements.
Warhol died in 1987 of a heart attack.

3. Warhol and The 60’s
The 1960s was an extremely prolific decade for Warhol.
Warhol’s images came from popular culture.
Warhol created many paintings that remain icons of 20th-century art, such as the Campbell's Soup Cans, Disasters and Marilyns.
Warhol began silk screening his images in order to mass produce them.

4. Andy Warhol, Self Portrait

5. The Beginning of Pop Art
Painting Title: Mickey Mouse Andy Warhol Famous American artist - Pop Artist

6. What is Pop Art?

7. Pop Art A visual art movement that began in Britain in the late 1950’s and spread to America.

8. Painting Title: Elizabeth Taylor Andy Warhol Famous American artist - Pop Artist

9. Pop Art is one of the major art movements of the twentieth century.

10. Characterized by themes and techniques drawn from popular mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects.
100 Cans of Soup

11. Pop Art, like pop music, aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art.

12. Banana, created by Warhol for an Album Cover

13. Painting Title: Turquoise Marilyn 1962 Andy Warhol Famous American artist - Pop Artist

14. Muhamed Ali, Professional Boxer

15. Liza Minelli, Singer

16. Campbell’s Soup Can

17. Marilyn Monroe, Actress

18. References
Pop art. (2008, October 12). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 22:24, October 12, 2008, from .