Andy warhol early life biography
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Andy Warhol
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Who Was Andy Warhol?
Andy Warhol was a successful magazine and ad illustrator who became a leading artist of the s Pop art movements.
Andy warhol early life biography
He ventured into a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations and writing and controversially blurred the lines between fine art and mainstream aesthetics. Warhol died on February 22, , in New York City.
Early Life
Born Andrew Warhola on August 6, , in the neighborhood of Oakland in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Warhol's parents were Slovakian immigrants.
His father, Andrej Warhola, was a construction worker, while his mother, Julia Warhola, was an embroiderer. They were devout Byzantine Catholics who attended mass regularly and maintained much of their Slovakian culture and heritage while living in one of Pittsburgh's Eastern European ethnic enclaves.
At the age of eight, Warhol contracted Chorea—also known as St.
Vitus's Dance — a rare and sometimes fatal disease of the nervous system t