Andy Warhol Américaine, 1928-1987

Andy Warhol was an American artist and a central figure of Pop Art, whose work profoundly transformed the relationship between art, media, and consumer culture. Born in 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he studied commercial art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology before moving to New York, where he began his career as a successful illustrator.

In the early 1960s, Warhol turned to fine art, adopting imagery drawn from advertising, celebrity culture, and mass production. His silkscreen paintings of Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, and Elizabeth Taylor, as well as everyday objects such as Campbell’s soup cans, challenged traditional hierarchies of subject matter and authorship. Through repetition and mechanical reproduction, he examined fame, identity, and the circulation of images in modern society.

Warhol’s practice extended beyond painting to include film, photography, publishing, and performance through his studio, The Factory, which became a defining site of artistic and cultural experimentation in 1960s New York.

His works are held in major public collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Tate Modern, London; and the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Andy Warhol remains one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, redefining the boundaries between art and popular culture.