Andy Warhol — "I'd prefer to remain a mystery. I never give my background, and, anyway, I make …"
I'd prefer to remain a mystery. I never give my background, and, anyway, I make it all up different every time I'm asked.
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About Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
American Pop Art icon whose Factory industrialized image-making and erased the line between commerce and fine art. Closely associated with Roy Lichtenstein (Pop comic-strip painter) and Robert Rauschenberg (combine-painter precursor). For an intellectual contrast, see Mark Rothko, Abstract Expressionist of the deeply personal color field — Rothko stood for emotional depth and singular authorship — exactly what Warhol's silkscreen production line industrially refused.