what does andy warhol do?
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 Warhol arrived in New York City in 1949 , directly from the School of Fine Arts at Carnegie Institute of Technology . He quickly achieved success as a commercial illustrator , and his first published drawing appeared in the Summer 1949 issue of Glamour Magazine . In 1952 , he had his first art gallery show at the Bodley Gallery with a display of Truman Capote @-@ inspired works . By 1955 , he was tracing photographs borrowed from the New York Public Library 's photo collection with the hired assistance of Nathan Gluck , and reproducing them with a process he had developed earlier as a collegian at Carnegie Tech . His process , which foreshadowed his later work , involved pressing wet ink illustrations against adjoining paper . During the 1950s , he had regular showings of his drawings , and exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art ( Recent Drawings , 1956 ) . 

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 By 1970 , Warhol established the record auction price for a painting by a living American artist with a $ 60 @,@ 000 sale of Big Campbell 's Soup Can with Torn Label ( Vegetable Beef ) ( 1962 ) in a sale at Parke @-@ Bernet , the preeminent American auction house of the day ( later acquired by Sotheby 's ) . This record was broken a few months later by his rival for the artworld 's attention and approval , Lichtenstein , who sold a depiction of a giant brush stroke , Big Painting No. 6 ( 1965 ) for $ 75 @,@ 000 . 

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 Warhol , a commercial illustrator who became a successful author , publisher , painter , and film director , showed the work on July 9 , 1962 , in his first one @-@ man gallery exhibition as a fine artist in the Ferus Gallery of Los Angeles , California . The exhibition marked the West Coast debut of pop art . The combination of the semi @-@ mechanized process , the non @-@ painterly style , and the commercial subject initially caused offense , as the work 's blatantly mundane commercialism represented a direct affront to the technique and philosophy of abstract expressionism . In the United States the abstract expressionism art movement was dominant during the post @-@ war period , and it held not only to " fine art " values and aesthetics but also to a mystical inclination . This controversy led to a great deal of debate about the merits and ethics of such work . Warhol 's motives as an artist were questioned , and they continue to be topical to this day . The large public commotion helped transform Warhol from being an accomplished 1950s commercial illustrator to a notable fine artist , and it helped distinguish him from other rising pop artists . Although commercial demand for his paintings was not immediate , Warhol 's association with the subject led to his name becoming synonymous with the Campbell 's Soup Can paintings . 

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 Warhol 's production of Campbell 's Soup can works underwent three distinct phases . The first took place in 1962 , during which he created realistic images , and produced numerous pencil drawings of the subject . In 1965 , Warhol revisited the theme while arbitrarily replacing the original red and white colors with a wider variety of hues . In the late 1970s , he again returned to the soup cans while inverting and reversing the images . Some in the art world consider Warhol 's work completed after his 1968 shooting — which occurred the day before the Bobby Kennedy assassination — to be less significant than that done before it . 

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 Warhol did not choose the cans because of business relationships with the Campbell Soup Company . Even though the company at the time sold four out of every five cans of prepared soup in the United States , Warhol preferred that the company not be involved " because the whole point would be lost with any kind of commercial tie @-@ in . " However , by 1965 , the company knew him well enough that he was able to coax actual can labels from them to use as invitations for an exhibit . They even commissioned a canvas . 
