Andy Warhol has been one of the most inspirational artists throughout history and is still recognized even in today's time. His art has been on bags and through clothes and basically he is the one who threw out the rules and used bags as dresses! He could do anything and make it look good and make it sell. He was known for his Pop Art (he was actually the father of Pop Art) and was actually an Underground filmmaker! Who would have thought. Though best known for his earliest works - including his silk-screen image of a Campbell's soup can and a wood sculpture painted like a box of Brillo pads - Mr. Warhol's career included successful forays into photography, movie making, writing and magazine publishing.
He founded Interview magazine in 1969, and in recent years both he and his work were increasingly in the public eye - on national magazine covers, in society columns and in television advertisements for computers, cars, cameras and liquors.
In all these endeavors, Mr. Warhol's keenest talents were for attracting publicity, for uttering the unforgettable quote and for finding the single visual image that would most shock and endure. That his art could attract and maintain the public interest made him among the most influential and widely emulated artists of his time. --Adapted from "Andy Warhol, Pop Artist, Dies," by Douglas C. McGill, February 23, 1987.
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