People have to view Warhol through the lenses of popular culture. He was a commercial artist which meant his job was to sell images. If you view him in that respect you understand and respect his career. He also launched the career of the Velvet Underground. He was a salesman of image.
He did start out as a commercial artist in NY, obviously, and he did want to sell work for sure, but Warhol really was more than just a commercial artist. Nobody whose exclusive goal was moving product would have produced the volume of weird and unusual work he did. No matter how much he pretended otherwise or how much money he made later in his life, his values, as reflected by his overall life's work, were those of an avant-garde artist. He sometimes did work that was mainly or exclusively for money, but to consider him as chiefly a salesman does not begin to do him justice.
He was a brain of big ideas... Very smart, also a genius of pop art. If Suiza create a nobel in Art Area, I give it to Mr. Andy Waoooo... And the other nobel to meeeee.... War - hol, the master of revolutionary methods...
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I bet you he has some sort of asburbergers like I do.I get the same way set in my own ways any thing changes I get anxiety.A lot of who are genius in some levels do have asburgers not all genius or people with asburgers but this guy shows some signs
Funny that he was always accused of being on drugs. Except for the early years he really wasn’t. I myself probably would have been high as a kite in the studio 54 days. I love that he would just agree with the critics. Boy were they pretty wrong. Seems mostly like personal agendas taken out on one man.
It's not about his talents. The guy was taking photographs & tracing them. Simple fill-in approach when dealing with paints. Nothing out of this world or complicated. It was his ties with the celebrity world. As he said, "right place at the right time." Words to live by.
the3vilsix Not true, he had a maagical eye and knew excatly how to best frame his subject, but check out his early commercial work. He was a very hard worker and publishers and advertisers loved him. he had very evident talent from childhood.
