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Pop artist sensation

"In the future, everybody will be famous for 15 minutes," said US artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987) .

Though he's been dead for 34 years, Warhol's name is still known around the world.

To understand the pop artist better, an exhibition — Becoming Andy Warhol — is being held at the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing until Oct 10.

More than 300 works from Warhol's career are on display.

Warhol is best known for his paintings that depict celebrity faces and US consumer goods, like the Coca-Cola bottle or Campbell's soup can.

According to CNN, the visual world Warhol created is directly connected to his background.

In the mid-1950s, the working class gathered a great deal of fortune.

They wanted to achieve a higher status in society.

The consumer goods and Hollywood faces are a "working-class-coded iconography that is often misinterpreted as generally 'American'," Anthony E. Grudin, author of Warhol's Working Class, told CNN.