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Andy Warhol Five Andy Warhol paintings of Campbell's soup cans, each labeled with a different soup variety, displayed in a row on a white wall at Museumsquartier in Vienna. Joe Dallesandro, wearing a necklace, sits between two women in a living room scene from Andy Warhol's Flesh (1968), with plants visible in the background. Andy Warhol Andy Warhol and Tennessee Williams Halston, Bianca Jagger, Jack Haley, Jr., Liza Minnelli, and Andy Warhol sit closely together in formal attire, surrounded by other guests at a crowded Studio 54 New Year's Eve party. Pope John Paul II and Andy Warhol
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Andy Warhol

American artist
Also known as: Andrew Warhola
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Andy Warhol (born August 6, 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.ā€”died February 22, 1987, New York, New York) was an American artist and filmmaker, an initiator and leading exponent of the Pop art movement of the 1960s whose mass-produced art apotheosized the supposed banality of the commercial culture of the United States. An adroit self-publicist, he projected a concept of the artist as an impersonal, even vacuous, figure who is nevertheless a successful celebrity, businessman, and social...

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