What's With Andy Warhol and High Heel Shoes?

Andy Warhol and his famous shoe artwork... He had an obsession with high heel shoes that's for sure, although he drew all kinds of shoes including boots. Have you ever seen his posters with shoes? In 1949, Warhol graduated from the School of Fine Arts at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (it is now called Carnegie Mellon University). Following his graduation, he decided to move to New York City to start working in magazine illustration and advertising. His biggest dream was to be in a big city where he would be able to meet celebrities and famous artists. He was obsessed with becoming rich and famous, maybe because of the tough childhood he had, coming from a poor family and growing up without a father. (His father had died when Andy was 13 years old). During the 1950s, he started working on ink drawings of shoes for advertisement purposes. These illustrations are the early works of his signature pop art technique. These were done before he had started painting Campbell's soup cans or Coca Cola bottles or his celebrity artwork.