GAY ARTISTS VS STRAIGHT ONES ( IN OTHER WORDS)

When the abstract expressionist had been macho and outspoken, he was fey and elusive. Where their art was personal and exotic to the extreme, Warhol borrowed his subject matter from existing sources-newspapers, packaging. He embraced the ordinary and transfigured the banal. Where the abstract painters had been dead serious Warhol was funny. Where they were earnest or mystical, he was ironic.

-Glenn O'Brien
Andy Warhol by Andy Warhol
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