POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE AN AMERICAN PREACHER WILL SAY: LEAVING IRAQ WOULD CAUSE ANOTHER « TERRORIST HURRICANE» IN NEW ORLEANS

THE HOLLYWOOD FASCINATION

IN THE FUTURE THE NEXT BESTSELLER WILL BE:GAYS ARE FROM PLUTO LESBIANS ARE FROM SATURN AND DRAG QUEENS ARE FROM HELL!

«MUSCLES ARE GREAT»

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PHILOSOPHY BOOK FOR THE 21 ST CENTURY

Now people say religion is coming back. But actually it's just that more and more people are getting old. So they say things like« I believe in something» instead of «I believe in the immaterial after life as promised by my church. This way it's great because you can be a 90 year old heiress and still go shopping and imagine you're gonna have this new mansion and this new Chanel suit in the afterlife while forgetting about stress that causes lines and wrinkles when you do stupid and useless things like trying to think.

«GEE, THAT'S GREAT!»

ARTS IN THE 21ST CENTURY: THE AGE OF AMBIVALENT CYNICISM

«The Warhol I've absorbed, the Warhol who saved me is the ambivalent cynic, yes human beings are worthless and life is slavery but there is grace to be had in accepting that, loving what makes up our empty capitalistic souls, plus a little tiny bit of death. Of course not a day pass when I don't think: «Hey I'm a succesful artist, I should be having lunch with Hugh Jackman or Russell Crowe not suffocating in my studio». In a perfect Warholian world however I would still just be in my studio working and the stars would come a-calling».


-Kara Walker
Artforum
October 2004

ANDY WARHOL THE WRESTLING FAN

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SEX & BEAUTY

«Beauty doesn't have anything to do with sex. Beauty has to do with beauty and sex has to do with sex».


-The Philosophy of Andy Warhol.

SIGN OF THE TIMES...

After Britney Spears giving birth, Angelina in the sky with babies, and baby Suri's poo there's now a Paris Hilton sculpture. What's next? A sculpture of Lindsay Lohan suffering from exhaustion?

THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

THE LONG TRADITION OF PORTRAIT IN ART HISTORY

«I got started on these portraits thinking of Andy's commissioned work» [Robert] Wilson says as well as those of classical portraitists like John Singer Sargeant. «But whereas Warhol's working motto was «fast easy cheap and modern» Wilson 's approach is slow, difficult, expensive and replete with historical references...He posed ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov as Saint Sebastien, French actress jeanne Moreau as mary Queen of Scots and princess Caroline of Monaco as Sargeant's Madame X but from the back in homage to her mother's starring role in Alfred Hitchcock Rear Window».


-Bob Colacello
Vanity Fair
Dec 2006

«I NEVER MET AN ANIMAL I DIDN'T LIKE»

PHILOSOPHY BOOK FOR THE 21 ST CENTURY

People are always talking of the culture war now. Liberals vs conservatives. But I mean politics is no longer about that. Before the party who got elected used to have the best program. Then it used to have the best and most charismatic leader. Now people are just voting according to which party they think have the least repulsive partisans. So while people are not actually right wing or left wing they look around them and see who they can identify the most with and who they like the least: The crazy gun owning guy with the Condederate flag on his t-shirt or the hairy East Coast lesbian who teach PE classes? The black guy with conservative values on the down low or the drag queen collecting British royalty stuff? The grand mother who still make those great cookies believe in God but doesn't go to church or the church going atheist socialite who just want to check out if her rival will dare wearing the same Prada shoes two sundays in the same year?

THE HOLLYWOOD FASCINATION

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE A COSMETIC COMPANY WILL LAUNCH «MIXED RACE» FACE CREAM

«ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS»

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THE ROYALTY QUESTION

«I had my opening at Leo Castelli's to go to, of the Reigning Queens portfolio that I just hate Georges Mulder fo showing here in America. They were supposed to be only for Europe-nobody here cares about royalty and it 'll just be another bad review. And I told jean Michel not to come to this. I asked him if he was mad at me for that review where he got called my mascot, and he said no».


The Andy Warhol Diaries
September 20 1985

«GEE, THAT'S GREAT!»

PHILOSOPHY BOOK FOR THE 21 ST CENTURY

Now it must be really difficult to be an ageing actress in Hollywood with all that high definition stuff . You really see everything. But I mean it's not just the actresses. I guess that's why the more people want their TV sex in high definition the more they want their actual sex live in low definition...

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE REPLACEABLE BODY PARTS WILL BE THE NEW BLACK

«MUSCLES ARE GREAT»

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DEFINITION OF AN AMERICAN FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

«At Herald Square people were pouring into Macy's from all over the world. At least they looked like they came from all over the world. But they were all americans and though they had lots of different color skins they all had buying in their blood and minds and eyes».


THe Philosophy of Andy Warhol.

«I NEVER MET AN ANIMAL I DIDN'T LIKE»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE A JEWISH MAGAZINE WILL WRITE: IS THIS NEW PLANET OUTSIDE THE SOLAR SYSTEM GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

NEVER TOO LATE

«If I'd gone ahead and died ten years ago, I'd probably be a cult figure today».


-Andy Warhol
1980

«GEE, THAT'S GREAT!»

PHILOSOPHY BOOK FOR THE 21 ST CENTURY

It's really amazing how the media world is changing now. But I still don't know who's right. I mean before in the fifties TV producers used to say: Yes, our TV shows are dumb but we're just giving people what they want. But now with The Internet, Ipod, etc, people are watching less traditional TV than ever so there are people who say that TV never really gave people what they wanted. But I don't understand it. I mean, Is it really because TV doesn't give them what they want? Or because TV doesn't give them.. exactly what they want? Maybe some people no longer want to watch a 30 seconds TV news flash about Britney buying diapers. Maybe they just want a whole Internet evening of Britney buying diapers. That's great.

THE HOLLYWOOD FASCINATION

PHILOSOPHY BOOK FOR THE 21 ST CENTURY

You always hear people complaining about the very rich now. «Don't they have enough money? How many steaks a day can you eat?» But I mean the pleasure of money is not about having things. It's about having what others don't. Bill Gates is not more happy than Larry Ellison. But his pleasure is to have more money than Larry Ellison. I mean what would be the pleasure of being Angelina Jolie if all the other women were looking like her?

And this rule really works for eveything. Before the rich were fat. But now that the poor as as fat as the rich of 100 years ago, all the rich want to be thin. I guess It's just the same old story over and over.

«ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS»

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MAKING A STATEMENT

«Naturally Warhol always fervently denied that his work expressed or meant anything at all. Most of all he despised irony: If you want to know all about Andy Warhol he said «just look at the surface of my painting and films and me and there I am. There's nothing behind it». Many have taken him at his word without realizing that the was telling them that lack of importance was precisely what was most important about his own work. His statement was that he didn't consider himself to be making one».


-Charles Shaar
Newstateman
Jan 30 2006

ANDY WARHOL THE WRESTLING FAN

GETTING IT RIGHT

«Rather than reinventing Warhol under the sign of this or that avant-garde artist, why not take his fascination with mass culture seriously? Why not look closely at the subjects and surfaces which Warhol actually worked-and worked over-rather than refer his art yet again to some earlier source within the history of modernism?».


Richard Meyer
(in the context of the 2002 MOCA retrospective)

THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

THE SECRET OF CELEBRITY MAGAZINES

«On the surface the celebrity rags seem to be about sex. But their real subject is reproduction and the future of the human tribe. On the savanna we needed to monitor how our clan was faring and given our small population we could do the job by ourselves...But in a country of 290 million people where even our next door neighbors are stangers we still need to flex those savanna needs for gossip and information in order to measure our species prospect. What better proxy than the young wealthy handsome and visible alpha male and female breeding stock that Hollywood employs».


Jack Shafer
Slate
Nov 20 2003

«GEE, THAT'S GREAT!»

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TV MAGIC

«It's funny but after seeing Dr. Ruth in person at the Emmys she doesn't look like she seems on TV. The magic of TV is what makes her look crunchy. In person she's just a normal person you want to kick around»


-The Andy Warhol Diaries.

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE CELEBRITY MAGAZINE WILL WRITE: SHOULD BRITNEY EAT A DOMINO PIZZA OR A BEN & JERRY ICE CREAM? $25 PER CALL

«I NEVER MET AN ANIMAL I DIDN'T LIKE»

PHILOSOPHY BOOK FOR THE 21 ST CENTURY

Everybody says it's more and more difficult to be happy for a long period of time. But I mean isn't just because of human nature? Just because of time? Every year people are complaining. «Oh no, I'm older again! Time goes so fast, I don't have time to do anything.» But then every day they actually complain about time not passing fast enough. The bus doesn't arrive fast enough, I'm not back home fast enough, etc. I mean maybe people should be better off if they were just forgetting about that whole happiness thing. But then nobody would buy anything so I guess we really need it.

THE HOLLYWOOD FASCINATION

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POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE AN AMERICAN BUSINESS MAN WILL LAUNCH «TRANS FAT FREE SPRING WATER»

«MUSCLES ARE GREAT»

PHILOSOPHY BOOK FOR THE 21 ST CENTURY

Everybody is talking about cloning these days. And they all say it would be bad. But I don't understand it. I mean it would just be like all those girls telling you about the weather on TV. Same age, same nose, same teeth, same body size, same obnoxious voice. Over and over and over again.

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE CELEBRITY MAGAZINE WILL WRITE: TIRED OF LIVING LIKE A PAUPER WITH 50 HANDBAGS? BEST 764 HANDBAGS FOR YOU NOW!

«ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS»

THE COMMERCIAL ART QUESTION

«Warhol's images made sense to me although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest I didn't think about him a hell of a lot».


-Barbara Kruger.

«GEE, THAT'S GREAT!»

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POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE US PRESIDENTS WILL BE ELECTED ON THEIR SINGING ABILITIES

WHILE WAITING FOR THE «GREEN CAR CRASH» AUCTION

«And it's funny because only my Disaster paintings are the «in» paintings. Even the Campbell's Soup Cans are «out». And I really have only two collectors. Saatchi and Newhouse a little bit. Whereas Roy Lichenstein and those people have fifteen or twenty. I guess I'm just not...a good painter».


-Andy Warhol Diaries
Dec 19 1984

THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

POP ART AND THE OTHER ELVIS PAINTING

«Well, what I was trying to do and it didn't succeed if you think of an art equivalent to music, you've got classical music, you've got Beethoven and Mozart. At the other end of the spectrum or in a diffrent area you've got pop music. But what I wanted to do was an art equivalent. If a girl liked Elvis to listen to, I hoped that she would like my painting of Elvis».


-Peter Blake.

BETWEEN THE CHURCH AND THE TORSO SERIES

«I've often said the best pornographers were raised Catholics which gives you an intense sense of taboo. I know I have it as did Mapplethorpe and Warhol and so does Madonna».


-Camille Paglia
Interview magazine
July 2003

«I NEVER MET AN ANIMAL I DIDN'T LIKE»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE WOMEN MAGAZINE WILL WRITE: HOW TO WALK THROUGH CAR BOMBS IN IRAQ WITHOUT DAMAGING YOUR HAIR!

THE AGE OF MANUFACTURING

«Even pop art you would think had some connection but it was only about images that were out of date. Andy Warhol's Campbell soup cans were about the age of manufacturing and mass production. Yet by the time Andy Warhol was born we were in the information age. The comic strip thing by Roy Lichenstein-the comics were already dead because of television. It's all very reactionary. Mc Luhan once said that «serious artists are at least one technology behind».


-Tom Wolfe

THE HOLLYWOOD FASCINATION

PHILOSOPHY BOOK FOR THE 21 ST CENTURY

I really don't understand all that thing about gay marriage. So called liberals always say that people in the red states would never vote for it because they're bigoted. But I mean the real reason is because when people are talking about gay mariage on TV you always see footage of some 50 year old men kissing each other. Of course no guy in Kentucky will vote for that. Why don't they show two 19 years old lipstick lesbians? I mean, all the men in red states would like the idea of gay marriage then.

«GEE, THAT'S GREAT!»

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ABOUT DAMIEN HIRST

«Hirst is following in the footsteps of his two artistic doubles. Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali who were both fascinated by religious imagery and made art poised between faith and parody».


-Jonathan Jones
Guardian
March 29 2007

«MUSCLES ARE GREAT»

ANDY 3:16

«I have a painting by Andy Warhol. Ever since I've been wrestling I've incorporated skulls on my merchandise so I have an Andy Warhol (print) of a skull. I got it in an art place in one of the neighborhoods in Los Angeles. I've had it for about eight years. It's signed by him».


-Ex pro wrestler Steve Austin

«I NEVER MET AN ANIMAL I DIDN'T LIKE» -ANDY WARHOL

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE WOMEN MAGAZINE WILL WRITE: IS YOUR MAKEUP GLOBAL WARMING PROOF? TEN TIPS FOR YOU!

GEE, THAT'S SMART

«I'm not more intelligent than I appear»


-Andy Warhol

ELTON JOHN & GIANNI VERSACE

Today Elton John is a big fan and collector of contemporary art. He once confessed that it was first the late fashion designer Gianni Versace who introduced him to the world of art by taking him to churches , galleries and museums. Meanwhile Versace was influenced very much by Warhol during his career. And that both in his work and attitude. All about audacity, boldness and a sense of drama. Maybe that' why André Leon Talley once said that wearing Versace was at once «totally Wagnerian and Andy Warholian»

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«ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS»

I BELIEVE

«Even beauties can be unacttractive. if you catch a beauty in the wrong light at the right time, forget it. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. I believe in plastic surgery».


-Andy Warhol

AMERICAN IDOL AND THE OTHER ANDY WARHOL LESSON.

Forget the 15 minute of fame here. The real lesson is that often people are not able to see the real talent when it first show up. Now Simon Cowell says that the American Idol show is suffering because people who didn't win in the past have now great careers anyway. Just think of Jennifer Hudson and Chris Daughtry.

Interesting to remember that when Warhol started everybody thought he was just a commercial artist who was not going to last or have any kind of impact in the world of art history...

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE AN EXTREME SPORTS FAN WILL INVENT WHEELCHAIR BUNGEE JUMPING

THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

PHILOSOPHY BOOK FOR THE 21 ST CENTURY

Pop psychology is great. You don't even have to be smart to make a lot of money out of it. But I don't understand it. Nowadays you always got some guru talking about how important it is to picture mentally what you want in order to get it, how important it is to have a clear vision etc. But then everybody who is a success always say: I never had any career plan or I never thought I would make it that big. So I guess the thing is to say one thing if you are just starting, another one if you actually made it and nothing while you're struggling in between.

«GEE, THAT'S GREAT!»

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ART CARS: THEN AND NOW

In 1975 french racing driver Hervé Poulain asked his friend Alexander Calder to transform his racing car. In the following years many artists such as Keith Haring, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol would eventually do the same and transform BMW cars into art cars.

Today in 2007 this idea of merging cars with art and advertising is gaining popularity once again: «Fashion and sneakers companies are the most obvious modern patrons of artists these days but many larger marketers have turned to them to create or build on a brand vision. Toyota has harnassed an array of contemporary artists for the past few years not just to create ad messages for its youthful Scion brand but to make art out of the vehicules themselves» (Ad Age April 9 2007)

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE CELEBRITY MAGAZINE WILL WRITE:TOP TEN BEST DRESSED HOMELESS PEOPLE OF THE YEAR!

THE HOLLYWOOD FASCINATION

MUSTO ON WARHOL

I asked Michael Musto his opinion about Warhol's influence nowadays:« Everything Andy stood for seems to have become a reality. The mass marketing of the commonplace, the chance for stardom accorded to virtually anyone and everyone and most of all the continuing resonance of both his work and persona. He's hotter than ever».

FLEXING FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME

PHILOSOPHY BOOK FOR THE 21 ST CENTURY

Social class is really different now from what it used to be. Before all the rich people had to collect art AND read Proust or Flaubert. Now they could just buy artworks and sell them for 100 times the price 30 years later. That's great because since they don't have to read anymore to pretend they belong to the upper class, they can just keep making money during the day and watch the same boring stupid TV show than the rest of us at night.

CULTURAL PERFORMER

«Warhol represented more than the sum of his pictures. Like Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Beuys he mattered mainly as a cultural performer».

-Ed Strong.

«GEE, THAT'S GREAT!»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE AN AMERICAN PREACHER WILL MARKET «CHRISTIAN ONLY» DRINKING FOUNTAINS

«MUSCLES ARE GREAT»

DENNIS HOPPER: WHEN MOVIE MAKING MEETS VISUAL ARTS

«However his removal from film making allowed him to immerse himself in the art world on both costs of the US, first in Los Angeles where he befriended and was profondly influenced by the assemblage artists Wallace Berman, Ed Kienholz and Bruce Conner and then in New York with Andy Warhol Roy Lichestein and Claes Oldenberg».



-Art by film directors
Karl French

POP ART: WAY BACK THEN

«New York Painting and Sculptures 1940-1970» the first of the big shows caused an enormous stir. Organized by Henry Geldzahler the ebullient young curator of the recently designed Department of 20th century art it filled 35 galleries on the 2th floor with a generous sampling of works by 43 artists who in Geldzahler's judgment had commanded critical attention of significantly deflated the course of recent art. While most of the major names were there from Pollock and de Kooning to Warhol and Lichenstein quite a few well-known artists were left out and these non deflectors were understandably miffed....Hilton Kramer the Times critic accused Geldzahler of «moral and intellectual abdication of his curatorial role».


-Calvin Tomkins
Merchants and Masterpieces

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE WOMEN MAGAZINE WILL WRITE: SLIMMING TIPS OF ALIEN WOMEN FINALLY REVEALED!

THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

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CELEBRAHOLIC

«Andy was a celebraholic. He would go to all the movies and read all the tabloids. He wasn't anti-Hollywood. He loved it. Be he has created his own universe in New York and become its star. Being gay, Slovakian and an artist from Pitsburgh he never felt he could storm Hollywood. So he created his own stars, called them superstars made his own movies and had his own studio».


-David Cronenberg.

THE HOLLYWOOD FASCINATION

PHILOSOPHY BOOK FOR THE 21 ST CENTURY

Today in America everything is really about looks and money. The 400 richest people, the 40 richest people under 40, the 50 most beautiful people etc. But I mean we still don't know. They should really do an happiness and sexual satisfaction ranking. Is it better to be 90 year old with 10 billion fortune and a 60 year old botoxed socialite wife, or be 25 with $30 000 a year and a 19 year old girlfriend. Who's the most happy and who got the best sexual life? They could really make a lot of talk shows and magazines articles about that.

ATHLETES AS NEW MEDIA STARS

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POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE AN AMERICAN POLITICIAN WILL LINK IRAQ TO THE «FIGHT» AGAINST GLOBAL WARMING

THE NEW POP CULTURE STATEMENT

Sometimes the world of pop culture gossip is quite fantastic. We now learned that Mary Kate Olsen has started collecting paintings by Warhol. Who knows what's next? Paris Hilton collecting works of Jeff Koons with Ciccolina?

THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE GOSSIP MAGAZINE WILL WRITE:BEARDED ELVIS FOUND HIDING IN TUNNELS IN AFGHANISTAN!

ATHLETES ARE FUN

«Andy loved the athletes» recalle Catherine Guiness. «It was very exciting -much nicer than painting Bob's rich old ladies».


- Victor Bockris
Life and death of Andy Warhol

POST WARHOL PREDICTION :BEFORE: HAVE A BREAST REDUCTION AND UPDATE YOUR LOOK FOR SPRING!

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: AFTER: HAVE A BREAST AUGMENTATION AND UPDATE YOUR LOOK FOR SUMMER!

ALL ABOUT YOUNG PEOPLE

PICASSO AND WARHOL: MUCH MORE IN COMMON THAN WE THINK

Today Warhol and Picasso are the two artists commanding the highest prices at auction. But they have much more in common than that. Throughout their lives both had the most telling characteristic of great artists: multiples contradictions. Picasso wanted «to live like a poor guy with a lot of money» and for any Warhol quote about most subject you will also find its exact opposite. But most importantly both artists never lose sight of the real important things both in their works and through their personal life obsessions: love, sex, death, money and a very acute awareness of time passing. That's precisely why they have such a long lasting influence.

«MUSCLES ARE GREAT»

WHY HE'S STILL PRESENT

«Today he still seems present at the mass party half-there behind every new craze rom Paris Hilton to reality TV. But even this performance does not explain his hold on the imagination not unless you grant Warhol what's rarely emphasized in the right way and proportion: his spooky darkness».


-Mark Stevens
New York magazine
Feb 12 2007

«GEE, THAT'S GREAT!»

«I NEVER READ. I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»

IN THE FUTURE WOMEN MAGAZINE WILL WRITE: FEELING DEPRESSED? HOW TO KEEP A GORGEOUS HAIRDO WHILE JUMPING FROM THE 50TH FLOOR!

THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

WARHOL'S IMPACT ON TODAY CULTURE

I asked Matthew Creamer editor at large for Advertising Age about the influence of Warhol on today's consumer culture:« He's a vital figure in what I think we would call the aestheticisation of commercial objects à la Campbell soup cans. Treating a low object in a high culture way that now resides nicely in our museums has done much to blur lines between art and commerce. Thanks in part to Warhol's deconstruction of those bondaries we now have architects like Michael Graves and Frank Gehry developping products mass-market product and we have IPods and Motorola Razr as objects of art. And that's a massive contribution to today's business world».

«ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS»

THE ANDY WARHOL CAMERA PHONE

«Cingular and Nokia have annonced the lauch of a limited edition Andy Warhol branded camera phone to be released this summer. The cylindric shaped cell phone will be multicolored reminescent of his famous Campbell soup rendering and will come pre-loaded with an image gallery of some of his most famous paintings as well as a ringtone that will say in his own voice: "In the future everyone will be world famous for fifteen minutes».

-Source: textually.org
April 4 2007

MAKING A STATEMENT

«Naturally Warhol always fervently denied that his work expressed or meant anything at all. Most of all he despised irony:"If you want to know all about Andy Warhol he said «just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me and there I am. There's nothing behind it». Many have taken at his world without realizing that he was telling them that lack of importance was precisely what was most important about his own work. His statement was that he didn't consider himself to be making one».


-Charles Shaar
Newstateman
Jan 30 2006

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE MAINSTREAM COMPANIES WILL HAVE PRODUCT PLACEMENT IN XXX MOVIES

THE HOLLYWOOD FASCINATION

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