ILLUSTRATOR #8, ANDY WARHOL

   

       Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh and spent his childhood there. He moved to Manhattan after graduating from the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh as a graduate in Pictorial Design and actively pursued work as a fashion illlustrator. His very first job in fashion industry was drawing shoes for the fashion pages for Glamour magazine and famously illustrating an article called Success is a Job in New York.Then, he was regularly commissioned by Esquire and Harper’s Bazaar. 

He created drawings for I. Miller advertisements and art work for the windows of Bonwit Teller. He even was commissioned by Columbia Records and Tiffany & Co. The ‘a’ at the end of Warhola was dropped as part of this gradual self promotion and self invention and he quickly became one of the most sought-after illustrators in America. He set up Andy Warhol Enterprises Inc. to handle his business.
In the 1960s, Warhol developed into the world’s foremost Pop Artist. Warhol's art encompassed many forms of media, including hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music.
The body of work Warhol created in this period is now considered to be amongst the most important and influential in the post war era. 

His witty drawings with colorful colors as his signature style. The inspirations came from his daily day and also his ability to elevate something ordinary to extraordinary. Sprinkled with Warhol's perceptively funny observations.Warhol died whilst in recovery from a routine gall bladder surgery in 1987. Plans to house The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city, Pittsburgh were announced in 1989, two years after the establishment of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York. It holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives. It is noted as the largest museum in the United States dedicated to a single artist.