ANDY WARHOL IN GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Andy Warhol ( August 6 , 1928 - February 22 , 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art . His works explore the relationship between artistic expression , celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s . After a successful career as a commercial illustrator , Warhol becamed a renowned and sometimes controversial artist .

Warhol art encompassed many forms of media , including hand drawing , painting , printmaking , photography , silk screening , sculpture , film and music .

Painting
a ) Pop art was an experimental form that several artistwere independently adopting
b) Early paintings shows images taken from cartoons
c ) First pop art paintings displayed in April 1961
d ) Commissioned by BMW to paint a group 4 race version in 1979
e ) Produced both comics and serious works ( soup can , electric chair )

Film
a ) Worked across a wide range of media and highly prolific filmmaker .
b ) Made more than 60 films in 1963 and 1968 .
c ) Plus some 500 short black and white
d ) One of his famous films is Sleep , Batman Dracula in 1964 , Chelsea Girl in 1966 , Vinyl in 1965 .

Music
a ) Adopted the band the Velvet Underground
b ) Paul Morrissey as a the band manager
c ) The Velvet Underground as well as providing its album art in 1966
d ) Designed many album covers for various artists starting with the photographic cover
e ) Designed cover art for The Rolling Stones album , Sticky Fingers 1971 , Love You Live 1977 , The Academy Peril 1972 and Honi Soit 1981 .

Book And Print
a ) Produced several unbound portfolios in 1950
b ) Published book 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy in 1954
c ) Other self-published books is A Gold Book , Wild Raspberries , Holy Cats

Photography
a ) To produce silkscreens , Warhol made photographs by his friends and assistants .
b ) These pictures were mostly taken with a specific model of Palaroid camera
c ) This photographic approach to paintings and his snapshot method of taking pictures has had a great effect  on artistic photography .