Andy Warhol was an American visual artist, film director and producer. A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol is considered the most important artist of the second half of the 20th century. 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, sculpture, photography, and filmmaking. Some of his best-known works include the silkscreen paintings
Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) and
Marilyn Diptych (1962), the experimental film
Chelsea Girls (1966), the multimedia events known as the
Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966â67), and the erotic film
Blue Movie (1969) that started the "Golden Age of Porn".