Andy Warhol, original name
Andrew Warhola, (born August 6, 1928,
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, U.S.—died February 22, 1987,
New York, New York), American artist and filmmaker, an initiator and leading exponent of the
Pop art movement of the 1960s whose mass-produced art apotheosized the supposed banality of the commercial
culture of the
United States.