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| Mr. Detachment |
No one did banality like Andy Warhol. He never had a
business card, so who knew if he was artist or graphic artist. For Andy, there
was no difference. And anyway, who cared as long as you got paid.
Indeed, he never escaped the charge of poseur, and to his
credit, he never tried.
Somehow he tapped the mother-load of a nation’s early-60s spiritual fatigue. And he knew it had a lot do with cash, consumers, and celebrities.
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| Andy's Selfie |
His droning speech patterns. His childlike, gentle
observations. His fright wig. His voyeuristic films. He was a way of life, one
billion miles from Woodstock and campus rebellions. To complain is to commit,
and that wasn't Andy’s bag. He never explained a thing.
He was all for detachment and from the beginning
knew it's the observer who adds depth to the painting, never the other way around.
To this day, no one does Andy better than Andy, a monochrome magician, silk-screened with pixie dust, juggling soup cans, still frugging with it-girls, imprisoned in eternity for 15 minutes.