A study on Andy Warhol, a famous Leo Artist

There is one sign that is born to lead and to live life on centre stage and that is Leo. Warhol had the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Neptune and the Ascendant in Leo. 

Leo represents our need to creatively express ourselves and be appreciated by others. Leo represents self-unfoldment & the development of increasing awareness of the dynamics of creative self expression. It represents our Creative Self. 

The Sun is ruled by Leo. Leo represents self-confidence, powerful, sensitive, radiant, warm, loving, dramatic, big-hearted, generous, regal, and thrives on appreciation & recognition. (When we understand the signs, we then develop an understanding of the energies occurring in our daily lives.) 

We can see Warhol magnetized and inherently knew how to be creative & draw attention & how to be of influence (a leader). He was powerful, dramatic, creative, and was always seeking recognition & fame. He was quite sensitive & romantic, too! Falling deeply for a handful of partners throughout his life. 

His artistic spirit was nurtured from a very early age – from attending free Carnegie Museum art classes, to designing window displays for his parent’s grocery store. Warhol won a scholarship to study painting at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, where he graduated in 1949.

Leos are naturally ambitious, as seen in Warhol’s career. Despite the success of his early career as award-winning illustrator for Vogue, Tiffany & Co, Columbia Records + more!,  Warhol wanted to move beyond commercial illustration to pursue his own original work. 

In the early 1960s, Warhol moved to New York, where he coordinated with fellow artists to launch the influential Pop Art movement.

The Pop movement presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular and mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane mass-produced objects.

Warhol developed the innovative silk-screen printing technique and pioneered the concept of the artist-as-producer and the studio as an art-making factory.

Andy Warhol was a complex artist and leader of the Pop Art movement, whose ability to channel Leo's ambition, confidence and spirit of celebration allowed him to achieve lasting social change in addition to revolutionizing pop culture as we know it.

Do It Yourself (Sailboats), 1962

Rare Photograph of Andy Warhol in a flower field with Flowers Silk-Screen in Queens, NY 1964

Triple Elvis, 1963

25 Cats Name Sam, 1954

Mexican Flowers, 1961

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