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silk-screen printing

(Encyclopedia) silk-screen printing, multiple printing technique, also known as serigraphy, involving the use of stencils to transfer the design. Paint is applied to a silk or nylon screen and…

Andy Warhol Biography

Andy Warhol(Andrew Warhola)artist, film makerBorn: 8/6/1928(?)Birthplace: Pittsburgh,(?) Pennsylvania The consummate dispassionate observer and a founder of pop culture, Warhol made the Campbell Soup…

Andy Garcia Biography

Andy Garcia (Andres Arturo Garcia-Menendez)actorBorn: 4/12/1956Birthplace: Havana, Cuba Cuban-American actor whose smoldering good looks have helped establish him as a favorite Hollywood leading…

Andie MacDowell Biography

Andie MacDowell (Rosalie Anderson MacDowell)actress/modelBorn: 4/21/1958Birthplace: Gaffney, South Carolina Film actress and former Calvin Klein model, MacDowell got her start in films as Jane…

Mayer, Louis Burt

(Encyclopedia) Mayer, Louis Burt, 1885–1957, American movie producer, b. Russia. Mayer began (1907) as the operator of a theater in Haverhill, Mass., gradually gaining control of all the theaters in…

Andy Kirby 2002 Deaths

Andy KirbyAge: 40 NASCAR Busch Series driver; started 12 races in 2002, finishing a season-high sixth at Talladega Superspeedway in April; made 28 career Busch Series starts; raced for eight…

Andy Phillip 2001 Deaths

Andy PhillipAge: 79 playmaking guard who was the first NBA player to record 500 assists in a season (1952); five-time NBA All-Star in 11 pro seasons; helped Boston win first of 16 NBA…

pop art

(Encyclopedia) pop art, movement that restored realism to avant-garde art; it first emerged in Great Britain at the end of the 1950s as a reaction against the seriousness of abstract expressionism.…

Andy HARRIS, Congress, MD (1957)

HARRIS Andy , a Representative from Maryland; born in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., January 25, 1957; graduated from Regis High School, New York, N.Y., 1974; B.S., The Johns Hopkins University,…

Talley, André Leon

(Encyclopedia) Talley, André Leon, 1948-2022, American fashion journalist and consultant, b. Washington, D.C.; North Carolina Central Univ. (B.A., 1970…