Warhol started his career in advertising. In the mid 1950s het started to make paintings of famous American products like Campbell and Coca-Cola. In the 1960s he switched to silkscreen prints. His studio, The Factory became a meeting place of artists and would be artists like [Mick Jagger]?, [Lou Reed]? and [Truman Capote]?. One of the regulars, [Valerie Solanas]? shot Warhol in 1968, almost killing him. In 1970s and 1980s he mainly made prints of famous people
Besides being a painter, Warhol also made movies. His most famous one is Sleep (1963), which shows a man sleeping for eight hours.
He used to hang out at Serendipity, a club in New York City. The Andy Warhol Museum is in Pittsburgh, PA.
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