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Pop goes Andy Warhol
Updated On: 06 August, 2014 12:00 AM IST | | Dhara Vora | Dhara Vora
On the 86th birth anniversary of American artist Andy Warhol, pioneer of the worlds Pop art movement, we celebrate some of his iconic works that changed the way we look at art

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A visitor looks at Andy Warhol-s artwork, Campbell-s Soup Cans at the Tate Modern in London February 5, 2002. Pic/AFP

A feminist writer named Valerie Solanas once attempted to murder Warhol by shooting at him in 1968. Warhol was severely injured in this attack. This self portrait of the artist dates to 1986 one year before his death after complications from a surgery seen at Graves Gallery on April 11, 2012 in Sheffield, England. PICS/Getty Images and AFP
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