FROM ANDY WARHOL TO AMERICAN IDOL: BEST OF THE WORST

In the 1991 documentary «The life and times of Andy Warhol Superstar» Tom Wolfe recalled how the Warhol vision was fundamentally opposed to the one of Abstract Expressionists. While they despised the commercial world Warhol embraced it without reserve. In the words of Wolfe the Warhol attitude was: «Oh it's so horrible I love it!» And these days that very same idea is the one triumphing on American Idol or any other talent show.