first job was a shoe sketcher for I. Miller at Glamour Magazine. After that Andy had several jobs at various women's magazines and he continued to conduct those jobs stylishly and on time.
Andy's early works had a kind of humor to them. People admired how easily he drew things and how precise they were, but mainly people were intrigued by the whimsical touch of his style. The start of his career (in the 1950s) involved a lot of commercial work. This is something that most of the artists of that time, such as Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, were involved in to support themselves. Andy soon began receiving many awards from several institutions and he illustrated several books and comic strips. In 1953, Fritzie Miller, the wife of I. Miller, became Andy's agent. Andy started doing more and more shows. The Museum of Modern Art even used one of his shoe drawings in an exhibition. Andy once said," If they told me to draw a shoe, I'd do it, and if they told me to correct it, I would ... after all that 'correction', those commercial drawings would have feelings... The process of doing work in commercial art was machinelike, but the attitude had feeling to !
it." This shows Andy's belief that people's views of commercial art as just advertising, could be changed into views of insight and emotion.
Andy was always very shy and inarticulate, but he went to all the parties to find work and discover what was going on in the art scene.
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