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.

in 1961, Andy came up with the concept of using

mass-produced commercial goods in his art.

He called it

Pop Art.

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.