Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) was an American artist who became the defining figure of Pop Art and one of the most influential and widely discussed artists of the twentieth century. Born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh to Slovak immigrant parents, he worked as a commercial illustrator in New York before establishing himself as a fine artist in the early 1960s with his Campbell's soup cans and Marilyn Monroe silkscreens.

His studio, the Factory, became a center of New York cultural life — attracting musicians, writers, drag queens, socialites, and other figures — and his systematic use of industrial print processes challenged the notion of unique, hand-crafted artistic objects.