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Andy Warhol

アンディ・ウォーホル　/　あんでぃ・うぉーほる

American film director

August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987　・　Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Pennsylvania
film director
painter
photographer

My Take

Warhol is the rare artist whose greatest masterpiece might be his own persona. What fascinates me isn't the soup cans themselves but the nerve behind them — a commercial illustrator from working-class Pittsburgh deciding that fame, repetition, and consumer junk were worthy subjects for fine art. He understood mass media decades before the rest of us lived inside it; the fifteen-minutes line reads like a prophecy of social media. I find his films harder to love than his silkscreens, but even the difficult work feels like research notes for the world we now inhabit. Nearly forty years after his death, his influence is so total it has become almost invisible.

Overview

Andy Warhol ( ; born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist and filmmaker. Widely regarded as the most important artist of the second half of the 20th century, Warhol's practice spanned various media, including painting, filmmaking, photography, publishing, and performance art.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Andy Warhol
Name (Japanese): アンディ・ウォーホル
Reading: あんでぃ・うぉーほる
Born: August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Leo / Dragon
Origin: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: film director / painter / photographer / film producer / sculptor

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Schenley High School
University: Carnegie Mellon University

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role
Notable work	Campbell's Soup Cans II	—
Notable work	Chelsea Girls	—
Notable work	Exploding Plastic Inevitable	—
Notable work	Marilyn Diptyque	—
Notable work	Shot Marilyns	—

6. Links

Official sitehttp://www.warhol.org
Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9B%E3%83%AB

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