Andy Warhol was the artist of the pop art , a style of painting that came up during the 1950s and 1960s. Warhol came from a Czech family who came to America in the early part of the 20th . The Warhols lived in Pittsburgh, where young Andy took lessons and often went to the famous Carnegie museum to draw .

After studying art in Pittsburgh Warhol got a job in New York where he worked as an for famous magazines. His most famous works were produced in the 1960s. Warhol painted pictures of objects, like soup cans or Coca Cola bottles, in his famous silk technique . He also painted unusual pictures of famous of the time, like Marylyn Monroe or Muhammad Ali.

Later on Warhol started making films in his studio, The Factory. These films never became famous because they were boring to most people and had no . Andy Warhol was a strange character who always wanted to be in the . He met with famous musicians of the time, like Mick Jagger and Jim Morrison.

In 1968 Andy Warhol almost died when he was shot in his studio by a actress. He never really recovered from this . Warhol died in Pittsburgh at the age of 58 during a gall bladder operation. Pittsburgh still remembers its famous son in a dedicated only to the of pop art.