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Today, August 6, marks the 80th anniversary of the birth of the famous American artist Andy Warhol.
Artist, sculptor, designer, director, producer, writer, collector Andy Warhole- one of the most famous and controversial figures in the art of the second half of the twentieth century. His works became the personification of the triumph and commercial success of American pop art. Warhol's work undoubtedly had a huge influence on the atmosphere and direction of development.
Self-portrait of Andy Warhol.
Andy Warhol on the cover of Helmut Newtons Illustrated.
A special subculture of youth has developed around Andy Warhol, one of whose members, feminist Valerie Solanas, shot at the “teacher” in 1968, seriously wounding him. Although Warhol's life was saved, he remained disabled for the following years, and in 1987 he died from the consequences of this injury.
Andy Warhol in 1987, shortly before his death.
Photos: Picture Alliance, The Andy Warhol Museum, AP, Christies, Cinetext, Stern Magazine.
Currently, the name of this outstanding master has become a true symbol of an entire movement, which is usually designated by the term “pop art.” But what allowed this outstanding American to achieve such impressive recognition? You can understand this only by looking into the past of the great artist.
Andy Warhol's Early Years, Childhood and Family
Our today's hero was born in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) and became the fourth child in a large family of immigrants from Eastern Europe. According to the most reliable data, his family’s homeland was Slovakia, but in some sources one can also find references to the artist’s Ukrainian roots.The parents of the future artist moved to the USA at the beginning of the twentieth century. Andy's father worked in a coal mine, and his mother was a housewife.
Our Andy's love for drawing and fine arts came to him in early childhood. In the third grade, the future famous artist fell ill with Sydenham's chorea and remained bedridden for about a year. This syndrome affects the muscles and leads to uncontrolled movements of the limbs. During this period, he began to “kill time” by painting all kinds of portraits, landscapes, and also making collages from old newspaper clippings.
It is quite remarkable that already in those days Warhol began to paint the most ordinary objects of the surrounding world - lit lamps, cigarette packs, key chains and much more. Subsequently, the artist admits that it was during this period that the formation of his signature style began, which remained with him until the end of his days and brought him enormous success and fame.
After graduating from high school, Andy attended Carnegie Mellon Institute of Technology, where he began studying graphics and the basics of commercial illustration. According to some authoritative sources, during his college years Andy was one of the most talented students in his group. However, academic success was accompanied by an obvious inability to find contact with peers and teachers.
Biography of Andy Warhol
After receiving his diploma (specialty - graphic design), our young Andy moved to New York, where he got a job as a window designer. During this period, he painted advertising posters, holiday cards, and also did general decoration of stands. Some time later, he began to fruitfully collaborate with the famous glossy publications Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. Here he worked as an illustrator.
Artist Andy Warhol's career
The first success came to the young artist already in 1950, when he profitably used artistic blots to create an advertisement for I. Shoes. Miller." After that, he often began to receive lucrative contracts. His fees grew steadily. 
In 1952, Andy held his first full-scale exhibition, which instantly brought him huge success. In 1956, Warhol was successfully accepted into the “Art Editors Club”, and some time later he began creating his first paintings using the screen printing method.
By this time, the talented artist was earning about one hundred thousand dollars a year, remaining by this indicator one of the most successful authors of his time.
In the second half of the fifties, he first began to get involved in photography, but fine art still remained above all else for him.
In 1960, Andy Warhol created a design for cans of the Coca-Cola drink, which brought him several more large checks. During this period, our today's hero began to create a series of paintings about products of mass culture, which very soon became his “calling card”.
Episode about Andy Warhol from the film “What Men Talk About”
Between 1960 and 1962, the artist presented to the public a series of works depicting cans of Campbell soup. This was followed by a series of works “Green Bottles of Coca-Cola”.
Works from the early sixties were exhibited at the Stabl art gallery and instantly became very popular. During this period, some called the artist’s paintings a reflection of the culture of mass consumption, while others simply spoke about the artist’s extraordinary ability to find aesthetics in ordinary things.
In 1963, Andy Warhol bought an old abandoned building in New York and organized something like his own workshop here. This place was called “Factory” and very soon became a springboard for the creation and presentation of the works of the famous author. Having hired a team of young artists, the recognized master instructed them to recreate their own works, thus making art a product of mass consumption.
In the mid-sixties, Warhol began to get involved in alternative forms of art. He creates his works from cardboard, old cans, and powder packets. In addition, during this period, the talented author began making his first films.
However, it was not always possible to attribute these works to the field of cinema. Nowadays, the artist’s short cinematic studies are more often considered to be part of the same alternative art, since many of the master’s films did not even have a clear plot.
The assassination attempt and the last years of Andy Warhol's life
On June 3, 1968, feminist and former Warhol model Valerie Solanas entered the artist's Factory and shot him several times in the stomach. The artist suffered clinical death and a long operation, which nevertheless helped save his life. Having recovered from his injuries, he refused to testify against his former model, and therefore Valerie received only three years in prison. 
After the assassination attempt, Andy Warhol changed a lot. He often painted works related in one way or another to death. He was greatly influenced by the death of Marilyn Monroe, which resulted in the painting of his most famous painting dedicated to the actress. Subsequently, the works of this period will be identified by art connoisseurs as a separate stage of the author’s work.
Serving art in the life of the artist continued until the end of his days. In 1987, the great and incomprehensible Andy Warhol died in his sleep from cardiac arrest. At that time he was fifty-eight years old.
Personal life of Andy Warhol
For a long time, rumors attributed the great artist to an affair with his friend and muse Edie Sedgwick. They were halves of one whole - they dressed the same, dyed their hair the same color, and appeared everywhere together. 
Andy and his muse met in 1965, when Edie first came to the artist’s “Factory”. She starred in several of his films, and although they were often not available to a wide range of viewers, they began to write more often about the model in the press.
"I Seduced Andy Warhol" (film trailer)
However, this relationship ended one day for an unknown reason, presumably due to Eddie’s excessive drug use.
Andy Warhol always kept his personal life secret. Although most researchers agree that the great artist was gay, this is not known for certain.
If you ever see the paintings of this amazing artist Andy Warhol, you will never forget them. Somewhere in the depths of your memory there will definitely remain memories of his unusual, but very vivid paintings. But not everyone who is familiar with his paintings knows about the artist’s very personality. Andy Warhol is a very mysterious figure, one of the most famous, but at the same time the most controversial. The works of this master became a bright triumph and commercial success of American pop art. He was everything he was: an artist, sculptor, designer, director, producer, writer, collector. Even from his own life, this unusual artist made a work of art, creating ever new myths about his legendary person.
About the parents of the future artist
A talented personality, known today throughout the world, was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), into a large family of immigrants who moved to America from Eastern Europe. Warhol Andy, and his real name is Andrey Warhola, was the youngest, fourth child. He had two older brothers and a sister who died before his parents moved to the United States. The most reliable data indicates that the birthplace of the Warhol family is Slovakia. Although three countries consider this extraordinary artist theirs - besides Slovakia, these are the USA and Ukraine. But one thing is unmistakably clear - his legacy belongs to the whole world, and not to a single country. Andy Warhol's parents had nothing to do with art. My father was a coal mine worker, my mother, not knowing English, was forced to earn extra money by cleaning and also selling paper flowers she made with her own hands.
Andy Warhol's childhood
While still very young, Andy began to get sick often. From 4 to 8 years old, he suffered more than one serious illness, among them the most terrible disease was Sydenham's chorea, or "St. Vitus's dance." The boy suffered from seizures and was literally bedridden. At school he becomes an outcast. The child also became too suspicious and began to be afraid of hospitals and doctors. This fear did not let him go until his death. During this difficult time, Andy Warhol played with cut-out dolls and listened to the radio. The mother then drew different pictures for her son, and gradually he himself began to draw all sorts of objects surrounding him, as well as make collages from old newspapers. So, even in early childhood, Andy developed his first interest, and then his love for drawing. Somewhat later, Warhol’s mother, having earned some money, bought her son a small film projector, through which he watched stories in pictures on the wall of the room. Thus, in childhood, the creative potential of the future artist begins to gradually develop. When Andy turned 9 years old, he began attending art courses, which were taught free of charge. At the age of 13, the boy loses his father, who dies in a mine.
Warhol's education
While still in school, the young man planned to enter the University of Pittsburgh, and after receiving an art education there, teach drawing. But after graduating from school, plans change; Andy Warhol enters the Carnegie Institute of Technology. His plans include a career as a commercial illustrator. In 1949, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in the Graphic Design department. The future artist studied well, was even the best in the course, but did not always find a common language with both fellow students and teachers. He always had an active life position. At this time, Andy attends parties, concerts of symphony orchestras, and is interested in ballet.
The beginning of your career
After graduating from college and receiving a diploma, young Warhol moved to New York. He, like other pop art artists, began his working career as an artist of conventional advertising. The young man began decorating shop windows, making advertising posters, drawing holiday cards, and also decorating stands. A little later, he begins a fruitful collaboration with such popular glossy magazines as Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, and other lesser-known publications. Thanks to these magazines, their illustrator, Andy Warhol, also becomes famous. The biography of his life at this stage is marked by great upswing financially, but Warhol dreams of “high art.”
Andy Warhole. Creation. First success
The beginning of the 50s is marked in the biography of the extraordinary artist with the first noticeable success. It all happened after he came up with a shoe advertisement for the I. Miller company. Everyone liked Warhol's eccentric style of painting. He depicted specially made blots on shoes drawn in ink. This was a revolution in the world of advertising, and for Andy it was the first creative success, which brought him new lucrative contracts. Soon the artist Andy Warhol begins to earn more than 100 thousand dollars a year. And 1952 is the year when the first exhibition took place at which his works were presented. The exhibition took place in New York, and four years later Warhol was accepted into the “Art Editors Club.” Very soon he begins to create his own paintings, which he builds using an unusual method - screen printing. So he also became interested in photography, but Andy gave a special place in his life to fine art.
Andy Warhol is an extraordinary artist. His calling card
An incident that became fateful helped Warhol to establish himself as an artist who sees art in a very unusual way. Putting his own spin on an art dealer's idea, Andy creates a series of paintings of tomato soup cans and dollar bills.
An exhibition of these paintings in one of the galleries in New York created a real sensation, and the image of Campbell's canned food would later become his calling card. The artist's imagination has no limits. What else will this strange young man Andy Warhol come up with? He begins to create his paintings using silk-screen printing techniques. It allows you to repeat the same thing many times, the same images, the same strokes. This monotonous repetition is what Warhol strove for. This will be a characteristic feature of his work.
Creating your own factory
In 1963, Andy Warhol and his friends decided to create their own studio or workshop. To do this, he acquires an abandoned old building in the very center of New York, which will become his creative studio. Andy comes up with a simple, unpretentious name for it: Factory. It was a springboard of sorts where the famous master created and presented his works. Warhol Andy hires a team of young creative artists. Their task is to stream the works of a recognized master. The factory became a real commercial enterprise, producing about 80 silk-screen prints per day, and this number amounted to thousands of works per year. Having established work on mass production, Andy Warhol made paintings and portraits of celebrities a symbol of pop art and the artistic culture of America in the twentieth century, but purely commercial. This studio operated for over twenty years and was considered the craziest place on earth. Permissiveness reigned there, where they not only painted, made films, and produced mass silk-screen prints, but also where his creative team lived and held parties.
About the artist's personal life
What was this eccentric, unconventional and even strange Andy Warhol really like? His work was distinguished by its boldness and shockingness; it was underground, three-dimensional, created like a film. This image of him as a superstar was open to the public, in contrast to his personal life, which Andy tried to keep secret. It is not surprising that his personality was of great interest to the public. Warhol was at the center of the New York art scene for several decades. However, in fact, Andy was a great eccentric, a modest, even private person, and towards the end of his life, even a deeply religious person. Many researchers of the artist’s life and work consider him a homosexual, finding confirmation not only in his behavior, but even in his work: a series of paintings and several films. Warhol is credited with such boyfriends as John Giorno, Billy Name, John Gould, and Jed Johnson. But Andy Warhol still had a real muse.
This is Edie Sedgwick, a model and actress who once came to see him at the Factory and completely enchanted him. There were rumors that they were having an affair. They were like two halves of one whole. But Edie abused drugs, which is why her life was cut short at the age of 28. Whether Andy Warhol, whose personal life was so closely connected with this queen of Manhattan, regretted this is unknown. But there is no doubt that she was his muse.
The last days of Warhol's life. His work today
Andy Warhol was assassinated in 1968 by his former Factory model Valerie Solan. He had a clinical death, but he survived, although he changed a lot after that. He died in a New York hospital on February 22, 1987, in his sleep. Today he is considered the main artist of the late twentieth century. Films are made about him, books are written, and exhibitions are organized. Warhol's fortune, estimated at one hundred million, was bequeathed by him to his own foundation, which supports arts organizations. Today, Pittsburgh houses the Andy Warhol Museum, which opened in 1994. Its collection includes 4258 exhibits: 900 works of painting, a series of silk-screen prints, graphic works, photographs, sculptures, video works and films.
Andy (Andrew) Warhol was born in Pittsburgh, America on August 6, 1928. The Warhola family (real name Warhola) moved to the States from Slovakia, so Andy’s nationality is Rusyn. First, the father of the family, Andrei, moved to America in search of work, and in 1921 his wife Yulia joined him.
Outrageous artist Andy Warhol
Andrew's elder sister, Justina, was born and died in infancy, in her parents' homeland. In addition to Justina, the boy had two older brothers and one younger. My father worked in a mine, my mother was a housewife and worked part-time by washing floors, windows and making artificial flowers from scrap materials.
After moving to Oakland (a suburb of Pittsburgh), Andy went to a very ordinary school. The boy grew up to be a cheerful, tall guy (as an adult, Warhol’s height was 180 cm), until illness knocked him down. In the third grade, Andrew fell ill with Sydenham's chorea, which was a consequence of scarlet fever. With this disease, a person is seized by muscle cramps that he is unable to control.
From an ordinary playful boy, Andy instantly turned into a little sufferer, bedridden. He could not go to school, and besides, his former comrades teased him. The boy began to be terrified of hospitals, doctors, injections and everything related to illness.
To entertain and cheer up her son, Julia begins to draw him different pictures, buys magazines and newspapers. It was then that little Andrew became addicted to drawing: he drew light bulbs, pens, keys, trying to find something new in everyday things and creating his first works of art. The boy fell in love with making collages from newspaper clippings, and then watching stories in moving pictures using a projector.
Andy Warhol in his student years At the age of 9, Andrew began taking free art classes and even planned to enroll at a local university to teach drawing later. A real tragedy for the whole family was the death of father Andrei Varkhol, who died as a result of an accident in a mine.
After graduating from high school, Warhol entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology, planning to later work as an illustrator in the field of advertising. In 1949, the future king of pop art received a bachelor's degree in graphic design and set off to conquer New York, changing his last name from Warhol to Warhol, and his first name from Andrew to Andy.
Carier start
Andy had no shortage of talent: already in his youth, at the beginning of his career, he managed to gain the attention of large corporations. And he started, like many advertising artists, by designing shop windows. Also, at the beginning of his career, the young man painted postcards and posters and decorated stands. At this time, Warhol collaborated with fashion magazines Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.
Real success came to the artist after creating an original advertisement for shoes of the brand “I. Miller." Andy drew the shoes in ink and decorated them with blots. Fame brought the young man a decent income; famous brands began to sign contracts with him. However, the master himself considered his success only a step on the path to “high art,” about which he had a very unique idea.
In 1952, the first exhibition of Warhol’s works was held in New York, and four years later he was accepted into the “Art Editors Club.” This period dates back to the artist’s fascination with the screen printing method, which he used to create and subsequently reproduce his works. Using matrices based on his own photographs and newspaper photographs, Andy created his most famous paintings, monochrome and color collages with images, which later became symbols of pop art.
Creation
In 1960, Andy began designing Coca-Cola cans, followed by graphic work, drawing banknotes. Then began the stage of “tin cans”, which were depicted using painterly methods and screen printing methods. Urhall's artistic lens included Campbell's soups and other utilitarian objects.
In 1962, an exhibition of Warhol's best works was held, after which critics considered Andy one of the leading masters of pop art. His work aroused conflicting opinions: some argued that Warhol was a satirist emphasizing the consumerist nature of American life, others believed that all of his “masterpieces” were an exclusively commercial project, well-organized self-PR aimed at generating income.
Andy Warhol's paintings from the "Tin Can" phase The artist himself, being a brilliant master of shocking and self-irony, promoted artistic art not as something extraordinary and deserving of worship, but as creativity aimed at the broad masses. Warhol is considered the most commercially popular artist of the last century. He has commissioned portraits of Mick Jagger, the Shah of Iran and other celebrities, and his most expensive painting, “Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster),” was sold in 2013 for $1,054,000.
In 1963, Andy Warhol bought an abandoned building in Manhattan, where he opened a studio, calling it “The Factory.” It was here that Andy's team of assistants reproduced his masterpieces using silk-screen printing, and here he shot his films, which, however, few people saw. Parties were constantly held in the “Factory” building, people of art and journalists, models and other representatives of bohemia gathered.
Andy Warhol's Factory Studio In 1964, the “Factory” hosted another exhibition of its owner’s works, where installations from used containers and other utilitarian items were presented. Warhol received not only the title of King of Pop Art, but also the leading representative of modern conceptual art.
Assassination
In June 1968, Andy Warhol was assassinated by the famous feminist and model Valerie Solanas, who starred in one of his films. Having received three bullets in the stomach, Andy miraculously survived. He suffered clinical death and major surgery, and the consequences of this incident haunted him for the rest of his life.
Warhol did not sue the girl, but Valeria received three and a half years in prison anyway. As for Andy, he faced long-term treatment and wearing a corset, and his fear of doctors, illness and death only intensified. Also, as a reminder of the assassination attempt and Andy’s operation, there were terrible scars, which the artist did not hesitate to show off in front of the cameras.
Andy Warhol shows off his scars No matter what, the artist will continue to create. In 1979, he began painting a car, and in 1983, at the request of wildlife conservationists, he created a series of silk-screen prints called “Endangered Species.” This included images of the Amur tiger, tree frog, black rhinoceros, Grevy's zebra, giant panda and other endangered animals. These works will be exhibited at the Darwin Museum in Moscow in March 2017.
Personal life
Andy Warhol never advertised his personal life, but he also did not hide his connections, both friendly and romantic. For a long time, Warhol was credited with an affair with his muse and friend, model Edie Sedgwick. They were inseparable, dressed the same, painted their hair and nails, wore similar hairstyles, Edie starred in Andy’s films and posed for paintings.
When the couple separated, there were rumors about drug addiction of both representatives of pop culture, but there is no official confirmation that Warhol was a drug addict. It is unlikely that Andy and his muse were connected by anything other than creativity, because the great artist of our time had many male lovers.
Death
What did Andy Warhol die of? This question worries many fans of his work. The artist died at the age of 58 in a Manhattan hospital after surgery to remove his gallbladder. The official cause of death is cardiac arrest. This happened on February 22, 1987.
Andy Warhol's legacy
Warhol's philosophy consisted of his keen outlook on life, self-irony and the ability to see the world from a different angle. The artist transferred all this to canvas, sincerely believing that commercial painting has a right to exist, and there is nothing wrong with that.
Andy Warhol and his collection of paintings "Endangered Species" The style of Andy's paintings can be described as naturalistic pop art, although he often used generalized visual means. Thus, portraits of celebrities have idealized features and resemble a meager sketch, a squeeze out of the individuality of a particular character. Bright colors convey the artist’s mood, and the neon tones he used at the end of his life just scream about unexpressed thoughts and feelings.
Describing a master's paintings is a thankless task. It is better to see his paintings once and feel the information message that Andy wanted to convey to the public, rather than study encyclopedias dedicated to his work.
- "America";
- "The Andy Warhol Diaries";
- "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B and vice versa)."
Andy's ideas and talent continue to inspire artists, advertisers, creative people and businessmen. Thus, a sketch of glasses found in Warhol’s archival papers gave the Retrosuperfuture brand the idea of creating a collection of sun accessories. Many fashion brands use various works of the master to create prints for collections of clothing, wallpaper, bags and other designer items.
- Several films have been made about Andy’s work, in others he appears in a cameo role. Films about him - “I Shot Andy Warhol”, “I Seduced Andy Warhol”.
- In the film "Basquiat", dedicated to the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, the role of Warhol was played by the legendary.
- The most famous film in our country in which Warhol is mentioned is “What Men Talk About.”
- Andy Warhol created the famous Interview magazine, in which celebrities interviewed other stars, to attend film premieres.
Andy Warhol (real name Andrei Warhola) was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His father and mother came from the village of Mikova, which is now part of Slovakia, and then was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
In the third grade, Andy fell ill with a rare disease - Sydenham's chorea. For a long time he was bedridden and could not move at all. In the hospital, he became interested in drawing, began making collages and collecting photographs of stars. Warhol later recalled that this period in his life was very important in the development of his personality. Then he first realized that he wanted to become an artist.
At the age of 13, Andy lost his father, who died in a mine collapse. In 1945, after graduating from high school, Warhol entered the Institute of Technology, planning to become a commercial illustrator. He studied well, but could not find a common language with his classmates and teachers. One could say that he lived up to the stereotype of a true genius.
In 1949, Warhol moved to New York and began working as a window designer in shops and stores. In his spare time, he drew advertising posters and postcards. Later, Andy met several editors of popular magazines, marking the beginning of collaboration with Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.
Success came to the eccentric artist in 1950, when he made advertising posters for the I. Miller shoe company. Warhol presented advertising samples of shoes in a rather eccentric manner, specially drawing shoes with ink blots. The employer liked it and continued to cooperate with him. Gradually, the fame of the unusual illustrator began to spread throughout the city. In one of the magazines they wrote his name in the American style - Andy Warhol. The artist liked this pronunciation and kept this name for himself.
Worldwide popularity
While working on advertising projects, Warhol did not forget to think about “high art.” In 1960, he created his first painting from the Coca-Cola series, which soon brought him fame as an artist with an unusual vision. Two years later, he transferred the image of Campbell's soup cans to canvas, first using the painting technique and then using the silk-screen printing technique.
Warhol's paintings, exhibited at the Stabl gallery, caused a great public outcry, marking the birth of a “new type” of artist. Art critics immediately declared that the young author’s works reveal the emptiness, facelessness and vulgarity of Western consumer culture. Warhol’s drawings of Coca-Cola cans in flashy colors became his “calling card” and elevated the artist to the rank of cult.
Best of the day
In 1963, Andy bought a building in Manhattan, converting it into a workshop. In this scandalous place, which was called "Factory", Warhol destroyed the established concept of the art studio as a secluded place for the creator. An atmosphere of permissiveness reigned in the workshop. Every day it was visited by up to a hundred people: acquaintances and strangers, stars and ordinary citizens, representatives of the elite and ordinary workers. They threw parties where they drank huge amounts of alcohol and took all kinds of drugs. Incredible rumors spread throughout the city. It was even said that Andy asked his friends to urinate on works of art. Thanks to his scandalous fame, prices for the artist’s works were constantly rising.
In his studio, Andy usually worked on making portraits of stars or ordinary people using silk-screen printing techniques. He photographed a person with a regular camera, and then transferred the enlarged photograph to canvas. The result of this work was a series of canvases with the idols of modern society. His paintings depicting Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Jim Morrison, and Elizabeth Taylor gained the greatest popularity. But the main thing was that Warhol put his works into the production stream, turning art into a consumer product. His workshop employed several dozen workers who created about 80 printed works a day. In two years, 2 thousand paintings were made at the Factory.
Other projects
In addition to creating pop art objects, Warhol was actively involved in filmmaking. So, from 1963 to 1968, Andy shot 472 portrait screen tests, about 150 feature films and several dozen short films. Most of his film works had no plot and were based on pseudo-documentary. The most famous were his “still films,” which were based on the idea of shooting any stationary object or subject. For example, the film Sleep (1963) shows the sleeping poet John Giorno for 5 hours, and Empire (1964) is an 8-hour filming of the famous Empire State Building. With his innovative works in cinema, Warhol wanted to surprise the jaded viewer and become the creator of a new direction in cinema.
"Purple Self-Portrait" by Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol's life proceeded without much worry until June 3, 1968. On this day, feminist Valerie Solanas made an attempt on the artist's life, shooting him three times in the stomach. Warhol suffered clinical death, but survived. After the assassination attempt, Andy completely changed. He began to fear death, which was reflected in his work. In recent years, he has depicted a lot of accidents, suicides, nuclear explosions, and funerals in his paintings.
