Andy Warhol Artist and Filmmaker

When considering the life and works of Andy Warhol, one thing is agreed upon: for good or bad, he changed the visual construction of the world we live in. By the time of his death in 1987 he was ranked on the same level with Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock as one of the three most important and influential artists of this century. He was a working man, a social climber, a person who liked to …showed first 75 words of 748 total…

…showed last 75 words of 748 total…the year before his death, Andy made of silk-screened prints of commercial ads with some deviations from the original. It was a kind of return to his original career as a commercial artist, but with the confidence he lacked before. He had indeed crossed the final bridge by turning commerce into art by his belief that anything could be art if he said so. Warhol died in New York on February 27, 1987 after a gallbladder operation.