Why was Andy Warhol one of the most influential people of the 20th century?
Andy Warhol is one of the most influential people in American modern art. Warhol was best known for his bright colored images of famous people and food cans. Through both his art and lifestyle he explored the nature of fame, popular culture, and the media. His artistic influence and unusual personality redefined the modern art world. http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/archive/2006-04/2006-04-15-voa2.cfm Andy Warhol was not only the twentieth century’s most “famous” exponent of Pop art but, “a post-modern Renaissance man”: a commercial illustrator, a writer, a photographer, a sculptor, a magazine editor, a television producer, an exhibition curator, and one of the most important and provocative filmmakers of the New American Cinema group of the early 1960s.
