Warhol

Andy Warhol (1930-1987). American photographer, graphic artist, and artist, whose real name was Andy Warhola (he was the son of Czech immigrants). He arrived in New York from Pittsburgh in 1960 and immediately made his way into the advertising world as an illustrator, and into the art world as a painter. His works, which reproduced in exaggerated terms everyday reality, consitute basic elements of the aesthetic of Pop Art. The use of photographic, cinematic, and silk-screen techniques characterized his research, which was presented to the broader public for the first time in 1966 in a famous exhibition in the Leo Castelli gallery. In the area of photography he used complex cameras such as the Leica rangefinder camera and simple cameras like the Polaroid, but his images were almost always the product of graphic processes. He was famous for his clothing creations: Brillo (a skirt with the image of the cleaning product of that name) and Fragile, Handle with Care — a long dress completely covered with the warning legend, transformed into a form of decoration — both created in 1962.