Warhol was obsessed by ambition to become famous and wealthy, and he knew the only was to achieve this was faith hard work. In the asses, he moved to a place on East 75th Street, his mother moved with him. Warhol had successful career as a commercial artist, he won several commendations from the Art Director’s Club and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. In 1952, the artist had his first individual show at the Hugo Gallery, exhibiting ‘Fifteen Drawings based on the Writing of Truman Capote.
His work was exhibited in several Other venues during the asses, including his first group how at The Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Soon He had all of New York copying his work The asses was when Warhol began to make his first prints. They started off mostly based on comic strips like, Dick Tracy, Superman, and Popeye. In 1962 Warhol made prints of dollar bills and Campbell soup cans. He also did many prints on famous people, including Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne and Nanny Oakley, He was well known for making prints with slight color change, Whorl’s favorite printmaking technique was ‘silkscreen’.
In this same year, 1962, he mounded The Factory, it an art studio where he employed in a rather chaotic way “art workers” to mass produce mainly prints and posters, but also some other things like shoes designed by the artist. Other from art, the Factory also served as a filmmaker studio. He made a series of mom films about time, boredom and repetition which became underground classics such as the Empire, The Chelsea and Blow Job. In November of this year, Eleanor Ward showed his paintings at Stable Gallery, it became a sensation November, 1964, his first solo exhibition in the LLC.
S was held at Leo Castillo Gallery. This is when he began his self Portrait Series. Summer Of 1966, six Of his self portraits was shown at Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In August of this year he began to go to different colleges across the Los Angles area and give Lectures, they became so popular that some colleges hired Allen Midget to impersonate him for lectures. Warhol later moved and met Fred Hughes, Who later became president Of Enterprises and Interview Magazine. Then, on June 3rd, 1968, Valerie Solaris. Member of the entourage surrounding Warhol, and the sole member of SCUM Society for Cutting LIP Men) walked into Whorl’s Studio, The Factory, and shot Andy Warhol 3 times in the chest. He avgas rushed to the hospital and the doctors said he was dead, but they decided to open up his chest and massage his heart, just in case. It worked and Warhol survived the attempted murder after spending tuft months in the hospital Valerie turned herself in and was put in a Mental Institute and later given a 3 year prison sentence. Afterwards, Warhol dropped out Of the filmmaker business, but continued every now and then With his nutrition to art.
During the sass’s and Us, Warhol Status as a media icon skyrocketed. He began publishing issues for Interview Magazine. In 1971 He opened his play, Pork, at the London Roundhouse Theatre. He resumed with his paintings in 1972 The Factory was moved to Broadway. In 1976 he did he Skulls, and Hammer, and Sickle series. On February 22, 1987, a “day of medical infamy”, quoted by a biographer, Andy Warhol died Although the bullets didn’t kill him, his own gall bladder did. He died after a routine gall bladder surgery, he was 58 years old.
