华荷(1928～1987年)

Warhol, Andy，原名Andrew Warhola。

美国艺术家和电影制片人，普普艺术运动的倡导者和主要代表人物，华荷为捷克斯洛伐克移民之子，在匹兹堡卡内基工业技术学院学习绘图设计。後前往纽约市，从事商业绘图工作。他是一位干练的自我宣传家，1962年因展出甘贝尔汤罐头画、可口可乐瓶及布利洛肥皂盒木复制品而一夕成名。後期作品他利用照相丝漏版技术，用眩耀的色彩复印变化无穷的名人画像。在1960年代，华荷专注更多精力於制作地下电影，以其新颖的色情、情节的烦闷及无节制的长度而知名。从1970年代起直到他去世，他继续制造描绘名人的图片，从事广泛的广告绘图及其他商业艺术计画。他是20世纪末期美国文化界最着名和重要的人物之一。其作品的艺术观念仍具影响。

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1928～1987年

Warhol, Andy

U.S. artist, filmmaker, and leading exponent of the Pop art movement. He was born to Czech immigrant parents in Pittsburgh, where he studied pictorial design at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He then worked in New York as a commercial illustrator. An adroit self-publicist, he conceived the idea of the artist as celebrity. In 1962 he achieved notoriety when he exhibited paintings of Campbell's Soup cans, Coca-Cola bottles, and wooden replicas of Brillo soap-pad boxes. In later work he used the photographic silkscreen technique to print numerous variations of garishly colored celebrity portraits. In the 1960s he devoted more of his energy to making underground films known for their plotlessness, inventive eroticism, and inordinate length. Throughout the 1970s and until his death, he continued to produce prints depicting celebrities and was involved in a range of advertising and other commercial projects. His death resulted from a botched operation. He was one of the most famous and important American cultural figures of the later 20th century, and the effects of his work on conceptions of art continue to be felt.