The Pop Flair of Andy Warhol Eyewear

Andy Warhol was born to Slovak immigrants in Pittsburgh in 1928. Being a student of commercial art at the Carnegie Institute of Art, Andy later took up jobs as an illustrator for magazines such as Vogue and Harpar’s Bazaar, and perfected his role until he became one of the most demanded illustrators in New York. His first art show was in 1952 at the Hugo Gallery in New York where he showed drawings of modern art. In the next decade, he became a commercial designer drawing bottle and can designs, and later moved on to designing silk-screens for the movie industry. After that, he aspired to open his own art factory, rightly named The Factory, in which he utilized to design his works of pop art, ranging from posters to silk-screens to even shoes. In 1968, an attempt was made to murder him, in which he suffered great injury to his chest. However, he recovered from this and went on to produce human portraits instead, a sharp contrast to modern art. Amongst the celebrities whom he drew were Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson and Brigitte Bardot. Already a man of great achievement, Andy Warhol went further to produce a magazine named Interview and publish his own book entitled, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol. He died in 1987 due to gall bladder complications after an operation.

Eyeglass manufacturers have since then licensed Warhol’s name to produce Andy Warhol eyeglasses. Some of the Andy Warhol eyewear produced is made from metal frames with silicon nose pads. In order to show distinctiveness of Andy Warhol’s artistic flair, the inside of the temples of each eyeglass bears Andy Warhol’s name, replicated as a work of art from this renowned artist of modern and pop art.

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