Andy Warhol was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh as the son of Slovak immigrants. His original name was Andrew Warhola. His goal was to remove the difference between fine arts and the commercial arts used for magazine illustrations, comic books, record albums or advertising campaigns. In 1952 Andy Warhol had his first one-man show exhibition at the Hugo Gallery in New York. In 1956 he had an important group exhibition at the renowned Museum of Modern Art. In July of 1968 the pop artist was shot by a woman named Valerie Solanis. Andy was seriously wounded and only narrowly escaped death. He never recovered completely from his wounds and had to wear a bandage around his waist for the rest of his life. After this assassination attempt he made a radical turn in his process of producing art. He now spent most of his time making individual portraits of the rich and affluent of his time like Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson and Brigitte Bardot. In 1975 Warhol published The philosophy of Andy Warhol. In this book he described his views on art:

"Making money is art, and working is art and good business is the best art."