Andy Warhol was an American visual artist, film director, producer, and leading figure in the pop art movement. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture. Some of his best-known works include the silkscreen paintings
Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) and
Marilyn Diptych (1962), the experimental films
Empire (1964) and
Chelsea Girls (1966), and the multimedia events known as the
Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966â67).