About The Artist:
Andy Warhol
1928 Born in Pittsburgh, PA 1945 - 1949 Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh. Major: Pictural Design. 1962 Founded the Factory 1969 Founded Interview Magazine 1987 Died in New York, NY Andy Warhol began his career as a commercial illustrator, developing ads for the I. Miller Department store in New York. His first exhibition was in 1962, at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, which included all 32 of his Campbell's Soup Can renditions....
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About The Medium:
Cel
A cel, short for celluloid, is a transparent sheet on which objects are drawn or painted for traditional, hand-drawn animation. Actual celluloid (consisting of cellulose nitrate and camphor) was used during the first half of the 20th century, but since it was flammable and dimensionally unstable it was largely replaced by cellulose acetate.