Andy Warhol — "But being famous isn't all that important. If I weren't famous, I wouldn't have …"
But being famous isn't all that important. If I weren't famous, I wouldn't have been shot for being Andy Warhol. Maybe I would have been shot for being in the army, or maybe I would be a fat school teacher. How do you ever know.
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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.
Details
Warhol On Fame, likely after the shooting incident in 1968