Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, and is a widely influential representative of the American Pop Art movement. His novel use of screen printing allowed him to select iconic images from mass media and efficiently duplicate and recolor these images, often to ironic effect. Warhol's early awareness of the importance of reproducibility is in conversation with the ubiquitous proliferation of images in Postwar America, and it's his availability to the cultural forces behind mechanical reproduction that suggests a unique desire for the infinite and an engagement with aesthetic infinity.