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	"Portrait of Mrs. C" (1975) Andy WARHOL (1928-1987) Date ca.1975 Materials/ Techniques acrylic paint, screenprint on canvas Size 107.5 x 107.5 cm

Warhol is a painter, a print artist and a film maker. In 1928, he was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and passed away in New York, in 1987. After he leaned pictorial design at the Institute of Technology from 1945 to 1949, he actively engaged in his work as a commercial designer in New York. Warhol had his first exhibition in 1952. While he created his original designs and drawings throughout the 1950s, and he appeared as the most unique artist of pop art in the early-1960s, and received his popularity like a star artist in and around the U.S.
Warhol took his creative subjects from the commercial art, as gravure, photographs of pop stars, comics and the pictorial images of consumer objects, then he reproduce those materials into artworks. The series of Coca-Cola bottles and Campbell's soup cans represent his experiments in paintings making the most use of silkscreens and other media. Moreover, he created the works with free use of the actual incidence as well as the images from films and televisions, such as the photographs of Marilyn Monroe. The "Portrait of Mrs. C" is also based on the techniques of screenprint and colored in acrylic paints, which is a case in point of the characterless impersonality of Pop Art.
Warhol began making underground films from the mid-1960s.