The son of Ruthenian (Rusyn) immigrants from what is now eastern Slovakia, Warhol graduated in 1949 from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), Pittsburgh, with a degree in pictorial design. He then went to New York City, where he worked as a commercial illustrator for about a decade.
Warhol began painting in the late 1950s and received sudden notoriety in 1962, when he exhibited paintings of Campbell’s soup cans, Coca-Cola bottles, and wooden replicas of Brillo soap pad boxes. By 1963 he was mass-producing these purposely banal images of consumer goods by means of photographic silkscreen prints, and he then began printing endless variations of portraits of celebrities in garish colours. The silkscreen technique was ideally suited to Warhol, for the repeated image was reduced to an insipid and dehumanized cultural icon that reflected both the supposed emptiness of American material culture and the artist’s emotional noninvolvement with the practic
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A set of Andy Warhol-inspired decks,
32 Campbell s Soup Cans. Courtesy of The Skateroom. ©/®/™ The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, INC. Limited Edition.
Andy Warhol probably couldn’t skateboard, and René Magritte died well before the sport became popular but their artworks sure look good on the bottom of a deck.
You can check them out via The Skateroom, a Brussels-based “social enterprise” that partners with artists and estates to offer custom boards bearing their work. Other artists who have adapted their designs to a deck include Walead Beshty, JR, Albert Oehlen, and Judy Chicago.
The boards range in price from roughly $165 to $850, and the proceeds go to a good cause: the company donates 25 percent of the profit from every sale or five percent of the turnover whichever number is greater to social skating projects for at-risk youth and other nonprofits.