Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol, born Andrew Warhola Jr. on August 6, 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., is the artist and filmmaker, an initiator and leading exponent of the Pop art movement of the 1960s whose mass-produced art apotheosized the supposed banality of the commercial culture of the United States. An adroit self-publicist, he projected a concept of the…