After attending the School of Fine Arts at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), Andy Warhol moved to NYC in 1949, where he did magazine illustration and advertising. He gained fame in the 1950s for his whimsical ink drawings in an ad campaign for shoes, and was hired by RCA to design record album covers. Warhol was an early adopter of silk screen printmaking. He combined hand drawing and photography with “ink-blotted images” that deliberately incorporated chance and mistakes. He said, “When you do something exactly wrong, you always turn up something interesting.” Read more about Andy Warhol in A Brain. A Heart. The Nerve. (see NOVELS).
