Did he kill art? I dunno. You see I think Picasso had already done that by having the final word on almost everything. Art was dead when Warhol stumbled onto the scene.
And so he danced with the corpse and some sort of gruesome magical interchange took place and Andy died and art came back to life. But it was a kind of weird, revenant, Andyfied art, utterly different from what it had been in its previous incarnation.
I'm just running on at the mouth. I don't know if I believe what I've just said or if it's nonsense. But the fact is that Andy was a great, great mythmaker and whether one chooses to call what he did "art" or not is very largely beside the point.
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Date: 2004-05-31 01:24 pm (UTC)Did he kill art? I dunno. You see I think Picasso had already done that by having the final word on almost everything. Art was dead when Warhol stumbled onto the scene.
And so he danced with the corpse and some sort of gruesome magical interchange took place and Andy died and art came back to life. But it was a kind of weird, revenant, Andyfied art, utterly different from what it had been in its previous incarnation.
I'm just running on at the mouth. I don't know if I believe what I've just said or if it's nonsense. But the fact is that Andy was a great, great mythmaker and whether one chooses to call what he did "art" or not is very largely beside the point.