Shine runner, lightning mover are just a couple of names for those who used to transport this illegal product, moonshine. Inspite of this, NASCAR was birthed as a result of shine running, this begs the question how did this magnificent sport come from such dire origins. This beverage was called moonshine because it would be transported at night time, so it earned the name moonshine because the shine runners would work underneath the moon’s shine transporting this alcoholic substance. These bootleggers, or moonshiners knew that getting caught transporting this illegal beverage meant jail time. So in order to evade government agents or law enforcement they manipulated their box cars to…
Andy Warhol was born August 6th 1928. In third grade, Warhol had Sydenham's chorea, the nervous system disease that causes involuntary movements of the extremities, which is believed to be a complication of scarlet fever which causes skin pigmentation blotchiness. However this did not affect his life significantly. As a teenager, Warhol graduated from Schenley High School in 1945. After graduating from high school, his intentions were to study art education at the University of Pittsburgh in the hope of becoming an art teacher. He moved to New York City to pursue his own art. In the 1950’s Warhol became known for his drawings for shoe advertisements. During the 1960’s Warhol created his most known works, doing pop art works of Marilyn Monroe, Campbell’s soup cans, and Elvis Presley. He became a huge american celebrity and respected in the global art community. In 1968 a radical feminist attempted to murder Andy, only giving him serious injuries however through shooting. He survived the attempt. Warhol died in Manhattan at 6:32 am on February 22, 1987 after a surgery.…
Andy showed an early talent in drawing and painting. After high school he studied commercial art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. Warhol graduated in 1949 and went to New York where he worked as an illustrator for magazines…
Andy Warhol was born August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, New York. Andy was the youngest child, being the third born out of his two brothers. His mom was an artist herself before Andy was and when Andy turned nine, she gave him his first camera. As a young child, he has a nervous disorder and he stayed away from school a lot. While he was at home, he collected pictures and listened to his own little radio and this made him go crazy over pop culture and celebrities! When Andy was just fourteen, his dad died and he left lots of money. Later, the family decided to use the money on Andy to help with college. He ended up going to college and trained in pictorial design, then finally moved back to New York. In New York, he was paid to be a commercial illustrator but that was before he made art for galleries. After his long lasting year's with pop art, Andy got real sick! He had problems from a routine gall bladder procedure. He ended up dying on February 22, 1987 and was buried in Pittsburgh, New York. More than 2,000 people showed up to his funereal!…
Ever wondered how to make alcohol within the walls of your own home? Everyone is familiar with moonshine but the real mystery is how it is made. The distillery process of moonshine consists of two main steps: fermentation and distillation. Moonshine can be a very dangerous process if one does not follow safety measures. One of the main dangers from moonshine is methanol poisoning, but that only occurs in large batch distillations. Moonshine is any distilled spirit made in an unlicensed still. In the 20th century, the practice of moonshine was much more prevalent than it is today. Because hard liquor was not as readily available as it is now. The original name “moonshine” stemmed from the moonshine makers…
"I just paint things I always thought were beautiful, things you use every day and never think about I just do it because I like it. (Beckris 110) I just do it because I like it is Andy's philosophy on life. Andy might just be the most interesting and and at the same time the most confusing individual you will ever read about. Andy's work is like none others. His art brought common day people together and showed the impact of contemporary society and the idea of mass media on values. Andy's father Ondrej Wharhola is best described as a bald, burly man with a bulging belly and massive upper arms, pudgy nose and bristling sideburns. Ondrej was born in 1889 in Minkova. (Bekris, 6) He was married and living with Julia Warhola, mother of Andy, for three years in Mikova.…
Born on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol was a successful magazine and ad illustrator who became a leading artist of the 1960s Pop art movements. 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. Warhol died on February 22, 1987, in New York City.…
Andy Warhol was a very talented but nobody noticed him until he released pop art but he was the last artist to become famous for pop art. Warhol was a successful magazine and ad illustrator who came to become the world’s icon of the twenty first century. From there he became painter and filmmaker. I think people are drawn to andy because he is a very odd individual, even as a small child.He made the simplest things pop , i think that’s why it’s called pop art.The way he thought that everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes made him famous. Warhol did have struggles becoming famous. The pop art movement was art made based on modern popular culture and the mass media ,especially as a critical or an iconic comment on traditional fine art value.…
Warhol's first exhibition in an art gallery came in 1962 at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. He displayed his canvases of Campbell's soup, one canvas for each of the 32 types of Campbell's soup. He sold all the paintings as a set for a $1000.…
Andrew Warhola, better known under his artist’s name Andy Warhol, was an American painter, graphic artist and designer, filmmaker and main representative of the pop art movement. Warhol was born on the 6th of August 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in a working class family. His parents were immigrants from Czechoslovakia. From the age of eight, Warhol became very interested in drawing, movies and photography. Later Andy Warhol finished an apprenticeship as a window dresser. From 1945 until 1949 Warhol studied pictorial design at the Carnegie Institute for Technology, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. In the same year he graduated, Warhol moved to New York, where he dropped the ‘’a’’…
Andy Warhol had a very different way of doing things, not just in his art, but in his entire life. He was so different from everyday people, that people saw him as an outcast, just because he did things the way he wanted. Eventually his weird style and social awkwardness became something people were somehow drawn to.…
Andy was loved by the art community for his originality and unique technique of blotted lines and rubber stamps in his drawings. These techniques earned him numerous awards over the years at Glamour Magazine. After his spell in the magazine industry, he shifted his focus to painting and this is when his career and publicity skyrocketed. Warhol opened an art studio in New York called “The Factory” which quickly became one of the hottest spots in the city. Celebrities and other wealthy individuals from all over the globe visited “The Factory” to meet the founder of pop art himself.…
On August 6, 1928, Andy Warhol was born as Andrew Warhola to Andrej and Julia Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They were a working class family that stuck close to the roots and traditions of their Eastern European heritage. In 1934 Andy began attending the local Holmes School and took free art classes at Carnegie Institute (now the Carnegie Museum of Art). Andy had an amazing gift for drawing even from a very young age. In addition to drawing, Andy was fascinated by Hollywood cinema and spent much of his time at the local cinema. He also enjoyed taking pictures that he developed by himself in his basement. Through out the years Andy continued to pursue his artistic abilities and became astoundingly famous for them. More than twenty years…
Alcoholism is a very dangerous disorder that many people are suffering from. A lot of Americans don’t realize that alcoholism is a big deal, and they may not even know someone very close to them is an alcoholic. For the paper I chose to sit in on an alcohol anonymous meeting and this is what I observed.…
When Warhol moved to New York, work came quickly for him. Within a year of arriving, he garnered top assignments as a commercial artist for a variety of clients including Columbia Records, Glamour magazine, Harper Bazaar, NBC, Tiffany & Co., Vogue, and others. He also designed window displays for Bonwit Teller and I. Miller department stores. (http://www.warholfoundation.org/legacy/biography.html) As Warhol’s fame grew as a graphic artist he turned his passion into painting and drawing during the fifties. It was not until the late sixties and early seventies that Warhol produced some of his most ironic works. He started painting readily found, mass-produced objects, drawing on his extensive advertising background. First, his paintings was based on comic strips in the likes of Superman, Popeye, and two of Coke-Cola bottles. Then his ever-so famous series of Campbell’s Soup cans came along, along with his famous celebrity portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Elvis and others.…