After graduating in 1945 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in pictorial design, studying alongside greats like Balcomb Green and Samuel Rosenberg, Warhol moved to New York City to pursue commercial art . Success came rather quickly, and Glamour magazine featured his work in September 1949.In the decade that followed, Warhol prospered, winning many awards from the Art Directors Club and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. In the late 1950s, Warhol traipsed through Europe and Asia, and began focusing on painting.Warhol is credited with fathering Pop Art , a movement that still inspires artists today. He referred to the genre as “common art,” a novel method of “visual creativity, one based on references to advertising, common objects, consumerism, as well as mass popularity and availability.” In their calculated exclusion of all conventional signs of personality , in their apparent rejection of invention and in their blatant vulgarity these first Pop works were brutal and shocking, designed to offend the sensibilities of an audience accustomed to thinking of art as an intimate medium for conveying emotion,” explains Marco Livingstone of Grove Art Online.His portraits of Campbell’s soup cans, Coca-Cola bottles and Hollywood stars like Marilyn Monroe made Warhol a world-renowned artist. He soon delved into sculpture and filmmaking, and surrounded himself with the young and hip in his New York City “Factory.” Holding an unabashed fascination with celebrity, Warhol famously remarked, “In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.”