Andy Warhol

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to attend college. After
graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in pictorial design from Carnegie
Institute of Technology in 1949, he went to New York City with Philip Pearlstein,
who was a fellow student that later became a well-known realist painter. In
1960, Warhol finally began to paint in earnest and to view art seriously as a
career. He began his career with commercial drawings of women's shoes. In 1961,
an early manifestation was his Dick Tracy, an enlarged version of the comic
strip that was placed in the window of Lord & Taylor's department store. He
followed in his own footsteps to keep going in the ever-so-famous "pop art"
track. Warhol's use of images are so close to the images themselves, thanks to
the photographic silkscreen technique, which is a process of applying the same
image over and over again without changing the original. In 1963, he began
turning film into his next aesthetic. He was the recorder of the world around
him. Warhol saw this world as ...

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from his eyes is probably the most balanced view ever given. He may have
changed since the 60's, but it is still the truest representation of Andy,
himself. He never expressed the key happenings of his life; it's as if we, the
readers, already knew them. He just usually mentions the quick everyday type
things such as a cab ride to uptown New York. The first major influence on Andy
Warhol's life was the stepping stone of his artistic career, his enrollment in
and completion of Carnegie Institute of Technology with a bachelor degree in
pictorial design. After graduating he moved out to New York City, where his
life blossomed. He lived for a couple of years with Philip Pearlstein, ...

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