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Andy Warhol

was born in Pittsburgh, Pensylvania in America in 1928

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    When he was 8 years old, he caught a liver disease that caused his limbs to sometimes shake uncontrollably. While recovering, his mother, an embroiderer and artist, taught him to draw.

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    in 1961, Andy came up with the concept of using

    mass-produced commercial goods in his art.

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    He called it

    Pop Art.

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    He would use advertising images and reproduce them over and over. One early example of this was a series on Campbell’s Soup cans. In one painting, he had two hundred Campbell’s sould cans repeated over and over. Andy often used

    printmaking techniques

    to create his pictures.

    Campbell’s Soup Can, 1962, graphite and casein on canvas, 50.8 x 40.6cm

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