Andy Warhola?

Andy Warhol's (born Andy Warhola) fame began in August of 1949 when he was hired by Glamour Magazine to create illustrations for a section called "Success is a Job in New York".  After the credits had misspelled his last name as Warhol, he decided to drop the last 'a' in his last name.  In 1952, The Hugo Gallery housed his very first solo exhibition, and a group exhibition was displayed in 1956 at the Museum of Modern Art.  By 1955, Andy Warhol was known as the most commercially successful artist in New York.  Over the years, Andy Warhol had developed a technique for transferring photographic images which had been enlarged onto silk screens, and then placed on canvas and inked from behind.  The technique is how Andy Warhol had created his famous Campbell's Soup can. Andy Warhol created the Campbell's Soup can images to show that there are things in life that everyone has in common, from the highest in society to the poorest on the streets.  They are something that everyone sees everyday, something that everyone can recognize.  He created images with the same concept such as the 100 Coca Cola bottles, coffee cans, and 100 dollar bills.  I think the artist that relates to Andy Warhol the most is Roy Liechtenstein, but only because they both are famous for their abstract expressionism and pop art.  Roy Liechtenstein is famous for his abstract comic strip art.  Once Andy Warhol came into the art scene, he was fearful of his work appearing too much like Liechtenstein's, so he tried to create his own style with his technique on his preferred mediums.  Andy Warhol once said, "In the future everybody will be world-famous for 15 minutes."  Well, if that were true,  Warhol's 15 minutes would have been up a very long time ago.

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