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Jasper Johns
was born in 1930 in Augusta, Georgia. He grew up in South Carolina. He was drafted into the army and stationed in Japan. Between 1949 and 1951 he studied at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. From 1952 to 1958 he worked in a bookshop in New York.
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Roy Lichtenstienh was
born in 1923 in New York. In 1939-40 he studied under Reginald Marsh at the Art Students' League, New York, and 1940-43 and 1946-49 at Ohio State University, Columbus, where he completed his studies with an M.A. Between these two periods of study he did his military service in Europe. Between 1949 and 1951 he taught at Ohio State University. In 1951 he had his first one-man exhibition at the Carlebach Gallery, New York. Until 1957 he worked as a commercial artist and designer and did display work for shop windows
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Born as Marisol Escobar in 1930 in Paris of well-to-do Venezuelan parents. In 1949 she studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and AcadÊmie Julian, Paris. In 1950 she moved to New York and continued her studies between 1951 and 1954 at the Hans Hofmann School, Provincetown, and at the Art Students' League, New York. She began to make her sculptures in wood and synthetic materials. In 1958 she had her first individual exhibition at the Leo Castelli Gallery, New York.
Claus Oldenburg
Born in 1929 at Stockholm. The son of a Swedish Consul General, he came to Chicago in 1936. After finishing his studies at Yale University, New Haven, he started to work as a reporter. In 1952 he attended a course at the Chicago Art Institute, published drawings in several magazines and began to paint picturesIn 1958-59 he arranged his first sculptural, of plaster and garbage soaked in striking colors. He also started at this time to make replicas of foods like hamburgers, ice-cream and cakes, which prepared the ground for his soft sculptures.
Andy Warhol
Born in 1928 at Pittsburgh of Czechoslovak immigrant parents. In 1954 he left school with a high school diploma. Between 1945 and 1949 he studied pictorial design and art history, sociology and psychology at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh. Met Philip Pearlstein and moved to New York with him in 1949. He worked for "Vogue" and "Harper's Bazaar", did window displays for Bonwit Teller and his first advertisements for I. Miller shoe company. He designed stage sets, dyed his hair straw-blond and moved into a house in Lexington Avenue with his mother and several cats retrospective exhibition of his work. His estate was auctioned at Sotheby's. His will provided for an endowment fund for the patronage of art.