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War⋅hol

[wawr-hawl, -hol]
–noun
Andy, 1928–87, U.S. artist.
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War·hol   (wôr'hôl', -hōl')   
American artist. A leader of the pop art movement, he produced paintings and silk-screen prints of commonplace images, such as soup cans and photographs of celebrities.
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Warhol, Andy [(wawr-hawl, wawr-hohl)]

A twentieth-century American artist whose best-known work was a precise, enlarged image of a can of Campbell's tomato soup. He also painted Coke bottles, Brillo pads, and rows of images of Marilyn Monroe. (See also pop art.)

Note: Warhol once stated, “In the future everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes.”
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