Artist: Andy Warhol

Illustrator Andy Warhol was one of the most popular artists of his time, using both avant-garde and highly commercial sensibilities. Warhol was a successful magazine and ad illustrator who became a leading artist of the 1960s Pop art movements. He ventured into a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations and writing, and controversially blurred the lines between fine art and mainstream aesthetics.

In 1962, he exhibited the now-iconic paintings of Campbell's soup cans. These small canvas works of everyday consumer products created a major stir in the art world, bringing both Warhol and pop art into the national spotlight for the first time.

Warhol also worked in sculpture and photography, and in the 1980s, he moved into television, hosting Andy Warhol's TV and Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes on MTV. 

Warhol is one of the first artists i learnt about in my year 7 art class, from that point it was quite obvious to me that i would favour graphic design over all of the other art genres. His work is so iconic and intensely expressive. It stands out from all of the others, something that is hard to achieve in this day as there are so many artists around.

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