Andy Warhol

Person · Open Library

Born

August 6, 1928

Died

February 22, 1987

Works

294

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1928-08-06

Active to

1987-02-22

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,600

Total plays

10,277

Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 — February 22, 1987) was an American artist who became a central figure in the movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter; an avant-garde filmmaker, a record producer, an author and a public figure known for his presence in wildly diverse social circles that included bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy aristocrats. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Andy+Warhol">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,786x

2. Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas

   · 2005 · cited 16,646x

3. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis

   · 2022 · cited 13,882x

4. Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy

   · 2013 · cited 13,560x

5. A view of cloud computing

   · 2010 · cited 6,826x

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Quotes

• “Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody.Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about?Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things.”
• “The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.”
• “I think of myself as an American artist: I like it here.. .I feel I represent the U.S. in my art but I'm not a social critic. I just paint those things in my paintings because those things are the things I know best. I'm not trying to criticize the U.S. in any way, not trying to show up any ugliness at all. I'm just a pure artist, I guess. But I can't say if I take myself seriously as an artist. I just hadn't thought about it. I don't know how they consider me in print, though.”
• “If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface; of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.”
• “In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.”
• “Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory [...] Instead of 15 minutes of fame, he will have 15 centuries.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Andrew

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Pittsburgh

Place of death

New York City

Occupation

producer

Political party

Democratic Party (United States)

Languages spoken

English language

Notable work

Shot Marilyns

Field of work

pop art

Genre

still life

Movement

pop art

Official website

www.warhol.org

Image

Andy Warhol at the Jewish Museum (by Bernard Gotfryd) – LOC.jpg

Work location

New York City

Represented by

Gagosian Gallery

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