Early Career - 5th April

Today I plan to look and Andy Warhols early life and to start to look at his artwork in more detail and how this made him famous and open up more career paths to the artist.

Warhol showed early talent and studied commercial art at the School of Fine Arts at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1949, he moved to New York City and began a career in magazine drawing and advertising. During the 1950s, he gained fame for his ink drawings of shoe advertisements. These were done in a blotted-ink style, and figured in some of his earliest showings at the Bodley Gallery in New York. With the rapid expansion of the record industry and the introduction of the vinyl record, Hi-Fi, and stereophonic recordings, RCA Records hired Warhol, along with another freelance artist, Sid Maurer, to design album covers and promotional materials.