Andy Warhol ( the life of )

Andy Warhol, the American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and film maker, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 6, 1928 and died in 1987 in New York. Shortly after his birth, his family relocated to New York. The only son of immigrant, Czech parents, Andy finished high school and went on to the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, graduating in 1949 with hopes of becoming a public school art teacher. Soon, he will find that teaching is not his …

…for these paintings were gruesome, though he showed again his brilliant eye for such images so effective in shocking the viewer. "With an eye for the eccentricity of an individual event, Warhol's paintings capture the unpredictable choreography of death." Using a broad range of images, from car crashes, suicides, burn victims, funerals, riots, to the culmination with the atomic bomb, Warhol succeeded in giving the viewer what one expected of Warhol; to expect the unexpected.