Andy Warhol
By imbibing, interrogating and then recreating mid to late 20th century Western popular culture within his art, Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987) became one of the biggest influences on that very same culture - both visually and in terms of the zeitgeist. Andy's art was pop art.
Warhol was much discussed for the first of many times around 1962, when he showed paintings of Campbell’s soup cans, Coca-Cola bottles, and wooden replicas of Brillo soap pad boxes. By 1963 he was mass-producing these images of consumer goods by means on silkscreens, and an international art star - and art brand - was born.
