Andrew Warhola: from a Pittsburgh slavic ghetto to the upper East side, Manhattan

Magnet fine arts / Warhol
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Warhol notes (Andy Warhol; PBS / Ric Burns):

- Slavic ghetto outside Pittsburgh
- shy, sickly, effeminate
- rheumatic fever, St Vitus dance, skin condition
- sketching obsessively from age 5
- impoverished family
- art lessons
- support of mother and father
- Orthodox Catholic services
- celebrity worship (Shirley Temple)
- Carnegie Museum, Carnegie Art Institute
- 1949: NYC
- illustrator for Glamour, top magazines and ad agencies
- steady rise to success as commercial artist
- townhouse, upper East side
- mother lives with him, contributes to his art work.
- collects modern art.
- his fine art not taken seriously.
- blotted-line technique: shoes, faces, flowers, etc
- simplicity