Andy WarholAndy Warhol is famous for his pictures of superstars, but he painted bottles and cans too

Andy Warhole was bornIn Pittsburgh, USA in 1928.

He studied art and movedTo New York where he got plenty of work doing drawings for advertisements and fashion magazines.

His painting style is called...

POP ART‘pop’ is short for ‘popular’

Pop artists paint BRIGHT everyday objects that everyone can recognise

Warhol loved the simple patterns and pictures on ads and labels. The tomato soup can is one of his most famous pictures.

Warhol was very interested in famous people. He used photographs of stars like Marilyn Monroe, Elvis and Michael Jackson and repeated the pictures lots of time in vivid, bright, colours.

Michael Jackson (singer)

Marilyn Monroe (actress)

He also liked to use animals

Bright coloursRepeated design

Warhol repeats the design using a technique called printing.

THESE FLOWERSARE SILK SCREEN PRINTS

Stencils are made for each colours on framed sheets of silk. The ink is then pulled across and transferred onto the canvas

He used photography and drawing to capture popular and everydayImages.

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