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Andy Warhol

1928 - 1987

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Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andy Warhol has received more than 17,759,610 page views. His biography is available in 128 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 125 in 2019). Andy Warhol is the 2nd most popular artist, the 43rd most popular biography from United States (down from 42nd in 2019) and the most popular American Artist.

Andy Warhol is most famous for his pop art paintings of Campbell's soup cans and Coca-Cola bottles.

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Among ARTISTS

Among artists, Andy Warhol ranks 2 out of 77. Before him are Hokusai. After him are Marcel Duchamp, Yoko Ono, M. C. Escher, Victor Vasarely, Hans Holbein the Younger, Jean Arp, Jusepe de Ribera, Joseph Beuys, Yves Klein, and Roy Lichtenstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Andy Warhol ranks 4. Before him are Che Guevara, Ennio Morricone, and Stanley Kubrick. After him are Hosni Mubarak, John Forbes Nash Jr., Noam Chomsky, Ariel Sharon, James Watson, Eduard Shevardnadze, Philip K. Dick, and Chinghiz Aitmatov. Among people deceased in 1987, Andy Warhol ranks 1. After him are Rudolf Hess, Louis de Broglie, Carl Rogers, Dalida, Lawrence Kohlberg, Primo Levi, Rita Hayworth, Fred Astaire, Marguerite Yourcenar, Andrey Kolmogorov, and Pola Negri.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Andy Warhol ranks 43 out of 15,968. Before him are George Washington (1732), Howard Hughes (1905), Marlon Brando (1924), Charles Manson (1934), Wallis Simpson (1896), and Stanley Kubrick (1928). After him are Robert De Niro (1943), Henry Ford (1863), John Wilkes Booth (1838), Janis Joplin (1943), Maria Callas (1923), and Morgan Freeman (1937).

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Among ARTISTS In United States

Among artists born in United States, Andy Warhol ranks 1. After him are Roy Lichtenstein (1923), Keith Haring (1958), Barnett Newman (1905), Jeff Koons (1955), Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960), Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848), James Montgomery Flagg (1877), Judy Chicago (1939), Vito Acconci (1940), Robert Indiana (1928), and Gilbert Baker (1951).

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