Warhol The Life Of

Andrew Warhola was born on 28 September, 1928 in Forest City, Pennsylvania, USA, a small town northeast of Scranton. His father, Ondrej, came from Czechsolvakia in 1912, and sent for his mother, Julia Zavacky Warhola, in 1921. His father worked as a construction worker and later as a coal miner. Around some time, the family moves to Pittsburgh, PA. During his teenage years, Andy suffered from several nervous breakdowns. Overcoming this, he graduates from Schenley High School in Pittsburgh …

…is held, as Warhol begins work on the Reversals, Retrospectives, and Shadows series. The Myths series, Endangered Species series, and Ads series followed through the early and mid 1980s. On 22 February 1987, a "day of medical infamy", as quoted by one biographer, Andy Warhol died following complications from gall bladder surgery. He was fifty eight. Many artists of the postwar era owe a debt to Warhol's influence. Among the more notable is the Italian fashion designer.