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Andy Warhol is one of the most famous artists ever. He is an art of legend.

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Andy Warhol was part of the Pop Art Movement.

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He was born in Pennsylvania in 1928.

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His parents were from a part of Europe that is not part of Slovakia, then moved to New York in the 1930s.

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His first job was illustrating adverts in fashion magazines.

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Now he is known as one of the most influential artists who ever lived.

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He is famous for exploring popular culture in his work.

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Popular culture is anything from Coca-Cola to popo stats to the clothes that people like to wear.

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He made a print of Campbell's soup, a popular branch of soup in the United States.

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He said he ate Campbell's tomato soup for every day for lunch for 20 years.

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Pop art is all about making art inspired by things from popular culture.

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He had a very particular personal style.

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He had a sock of white and was usually seen wearing black, either jackets, glasses or sunglasses.

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He dressed and experimented a lot with personal styles.

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He made a lot of self-portraits. Warhol liked to use bright colors and silk screen techniques.

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He liked using screen printing to mass produce artworks based on photographs of celebrities like Marilyn Monroe.

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She was a movie star who was very famous in 1950.

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He didn't just do print, though he made films, sculptures and paintings.

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What he liked? Making brands because it means he could create multiples of the same image.

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The script printing is a principle that can clean lots of the artwork that look the same.

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Sometimes Warhol would switch colors around and present a group of prints with contrasting colors together.

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Warhol hung out with a group of actors, models and artists in New York City in the 1960s.

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Warhol's studio in New York City was called The Factory. This was a reference to the mass-produced nature of his artwork.

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He saw art as a product, the same as the clothes you wear and the food you eat.

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He loved the sanctuaries, beauty and plastic, things that are modern and change quickly.

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If he was alive now, what do you think would inspire him?

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Thank you.