About The Artist:
Andy Warhol
1928 Born in Pittsburgh, PA 1945 - 1949 Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh. Major: Pictural Design. 1962 Founded the Factory 1969 Founded Interview Magazine 1987 Died in New York, NY Andy Warhol began his career as a commercial illustrator, developing ads for the I. Miller Department store in New York. His first exhibition was in 1962, at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, which included all 32 of his Campbell's Soup Can renditions....
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About The Medium:
Screenprint
A stencil process employing a frame on which silk or synthetic fabric is stretched. Stencils are hand-drawn or hand-cut and placed on the stretched fabric and act as a block out when the ink passes through the screen by means of a squeegee onto the paper, the non-stencil areas create the image. Also known as silkscreen or serigraph.