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Born in 1928 in Pittsburgh, Andy Warhol worked as a graphic artist for renowned glossy magazines before he began his career in New York in the 1960s as a freelance artist.

Following his motto "All is pretty," Warhol turned his attention to the everyday objects of the burgeoning mass culture of the sixties and raised them to the status of icons.

Responding to the mass production of consumer goods, he introduced methods of mechanical reproduction for painting and print graphics to the arts, producing silkscreen prints in series.

In his studio in Manhattan, the legendary "Factory," artists, musicians and actors met.