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Andy Warhol he debuted the concept of "pop art"— paintings that focused on mass-produced commercial goods. In 1962, he exhibited the now-iconic paintings of Campbell's soup cans. These small canvas works of everyday consumer products created a major stir in the art world, bringing both Warhol and pop art into the national spotlight for the first time. British artist Richard Hamilton described pop art as "popular, transient, Born on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, expendable, low cost, mass-produced, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol was a young, witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, successful magazine and ad illustrator big business." who became a leading artist of the 1960s Pop Art movement. He ventured into a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations and writing, and controversially blurred the lines between fine art and mainstream aesthetics. Born Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928, in the neighborhood of Oakland in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol's parents were Slovakian immigrants. His father, Ondrej Warhola, was a construction worker, while his mother, Julia Warhola, was an embroiderer. They were devout Catholics who attended mass regularly, and maintained much of Warhol's other famous pop paintings their Slovakian culture and heritage while depicted Coca-cola bottles, vacuum living in one of Pittsburgh's Eastern cleaners and hamburgers. He also European ethnic enclaves. painted celebrity portraits in vivid and garish colors; his most famous subjects Warhol attended Holmes Elementary include Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, school and took the free art classes Mick Jagger and Mao Zedong. As these offered at the Carnegie Institute (now the portraits gained fame and notoriety, Carnegie Museum of Art) in Pittsburgh. Warhol began to receive hundreds of commissions for portraits from socialites and celebrities. His portrait " Eight Elvises" eventually resold for $100 million in 2008, making it one of the most valuable paintings in world history. In 1964, Warhol opened his own art In the late 1950s, Warhol began devoting studio, a large silver-painted warehouse more attention to painting, and in 1961, known simply as "The Factory." The Factory quickly became one of New York celebrities. Warhol died on February 22, City's premier cultural hotspots, a scene 1987, in New York City at the age of 58. of lavish parties that were attended by the city's wealthiest socialites and http://www.biography.com/ people/andy-warhol-9523875?page=1 A. Find where the base verb is used in the reading selection. After studying the definitions, use the word bank below to write in a synonym for each verb. The first one is done for you verb how is it definition Write in the used in the synonym selection? 1. venture ventured to risk something possibly B. risk or try dangerous or to begin something new in business 2. maintain to keep something working in the same way 3. become to change or develop into something else 4. blur to make something fuzzy or not clear 5. attend go somewhere or to an event (often regularly) 6. debut to unveil something for the first time 7. depict to show something in a picture form 8. devote to commit your whole self to something because you love it A. dedicate B. risk or try C. continue D. turn into E. smudge F. be somewhere G. illustrate H. present B. Use the word bank on the next page to match these definitions. The first one is done for you. 1. a person who draws pictures for a book or advertisement illustrator 2. bright, clashing and gaudy colors 3. to do something in a way that people don’t agree with and talk about 4. luxurious and extravagant 5. first or superior 6. being well-known, famous for something 7. very religious, committed to your religion 8. a distinct group within a larger community 9. lots of different types of something 10. to manufacture large numbers of the same thing 11. to mix, or to cause a commotion or reaction 12. to be pleasing or beautiful to the eye 13. to ask someone to make something specifically for you, custom, OR money that you make from sales 14. using and saying words in a clever funny way 15. slang term for a very popular nightclub or place to go 16. an image or idea that becomes a famous symbol of someone or something illustrator variety controversially devout iconic enclaves notoriety stir mass-produced hotspots commissions garish lavish premier witty C. Answer the comprehension questions. 1. What are some varieties of art forms that Andy used? ______________________________________________________________________________ 2. What ethnicity were Andy’s parents? Where they born here in the US? ______________________________________________________________________________ 3. Who are some famous celebrities that Andy Warhol painted? ______________________________________________________________________________ 4. What are some adjective that would describe “pop art”? ______________________________________________________________________________ 5. What was “The Factory”? Did they make anything in The Factory? ______________________________________________________________________________ 6. In your opinion, what was different about Andy Warhol’s art than previous artists before his time? ______________________________________________________________________________ D. Find a related word in the reading selection word definition Write in the related word 1. eventual happening at a later time, a result eventually 2. success something that turns out well in terms of fame, power or money 3. social relating to the interaction of people 4. gimmick something to grab your attention 5. exhibit to show or display art 6. embroider decorative sewing in patterns or initials 7. wealth prosperity, riches 8. install to connect or position something to use .

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