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Biography of Andy Whorl

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Andy Whorl Andy Whorl was a popular American print artist in the 1960. He helped create the style of art known as Pop Art. Pop Art showed what was popular in American culture; products, celebrities, etc. Andy Whorl’s career started out as a commercial artist. Some of his fellow artists admired him and his work, while other did not consider him a true artist. He displayed some of his work in museums and became famous. A friend of Andy told him to make art based on everyday things, so Andy made his famous picture of the multiple Campbell’s soup cans. Whorl used mass production to make some of his artwork like the “Ten Lizes” featuring Elizabeth Taylor. His mass production method involved silk screening. Before he could make the silk screen products, he had to have the images enlarged several times. The method of silk screening and mass production allowed Andy Whorl to have a team create his work instead of himself slaving away on his work. His team worked out of his studio in New York City. His studio, which he called “The Factory”, had three locations throughout New York City. Andy Whorl used consumerism in his art. He made prints of pictures of famous people like Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor. Some of his artwork has sublime tones of death. For instance his obsession with Elizabeth Taylor started when her husband died. He also started his artwork of Marilyn Monroe after her death. His inspiration for his Jackie Kennedy series was the assassination of her husband,

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