WITHOUT OBSESSIONS THERE'S NO GREAT ARTIST.

Andy Warhol once said everything he painted - from a can of Campbell's soup to a bottle of Coke - should really be classed as a portrait. Now the Grand Palais in Paris has assembled the world's biggest ever exhibition of Warhol's portraits in a revolutionary new interpretation of the American artist. The show, Warhol's Wide World, argues Warhol-lovers should drop their obsession with the label "pop art" and instead see the artist as a master portraitist, obsessed by life, death and religion, in the vein of masters such as Raphael.

The Guardian
April 16 2009