Andy Warhol was an American artist, filmmaker, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertisement. Edie Sedgwick was an American actress, model, and socialite who was a muse of Warhol's. She starred in several of his short films in the 1960s. Mao Zedong was a Chinese communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China. Warhol created a series of portraits of Mao in 1973.