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Andy Warhol&#;s Full Name: Andrew Warhola

Birth Date: August 6, in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

Died: February 22, in New York City, New York

Andy Warhol is an American artist.

His work is a type of art called Pop Art.

Getting Started with Art

Andy Warhol&#;s parents migrated from Eastern Slovakia. They had three boys, Andrew and his two older brothers.

Their dad was a construction worker.

When Warhol was eight years old, he got Chorea which is a disease in his nervous system. That meant that he often felt sick and had to stay in bed for long periods of time.

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His mother, Julia Warhola, was an artist herself. So she would spend time with Andy and gave him his first drawing lessons when he was in bed.

His mother gave Andy his first camera at nine years old. She wanted t