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Andy Warhol ANDY WORHOL The Dark Side It is rare for an artist to become a celebrity, but Andy Warhol experienced much more than his fifteen minutes of fame and became an icon of his generation. Warhol was involved in many artistic fields that included painting, filmmaking, publisher, record producer, and photography, but at the same time he was a businessman, social commentator and self-promoter. He was a major contributor to the Pop Art movement, a period when mainstream objects such as comic strips, advertisements, and celebrity photos, were incorporated into many works. Warhol’s “Campbell Soup” series and later his “Celebrity” series are some of the most well known works of Pop Art that are still used in print and advertising today. However, not all of his works dealt with intriguing celebrities or mainstream advertising. Scores of artists have revealed more than one side of their persona and Warhol had an area within himself that was different than the bulk of his visual output that seemed a bit morbid. Warhol’s darker side is evident in his “Death and Disaster” series. This was a period in which he related such tragedies as car accidents, suicide, capital punishment, and gang andy, warhol, electric, chair, pop, art, series, work, using, works, time, punishment, original, execution, different, chamber, capital, pieces, piece, period, theme, side, same, remains, prisoner, painting, one, new, later, itself, gives, feel, disaster, death, dark, celebrity, york, world, while, ways, visual, vision, trying, true, though, soup