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Andy Warhol, just me?

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hollysteers Sun 28-Jun-26 16:08:09
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I draw and paint and like modern art as well as traditional, but for the life of me do not understand why his coloured prints of celebrities are so popular.

That’s what they are, just coloured prints and one of my artist friends finds making them of various well known people sell well.
I find them boring and lacking any insight or skill.
Anyone else?

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ginny Sun 28-Jun-26 16:28:00

Totally agree with you. Still, each to their own I suppose.

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Judy54 Sun 28-Jun-26 17:19:21

As ginny says each to their own, it is a matter of personal taste. I can understand as an Artist that his work may not appeal to you but it does to many people and certainly gave him more than 15 minutes of fame.

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Magenta8 Sun 28-Jun-26 17:30:21

The prints and the soup cans hit the art scene nearly 65 years ago and I think they must have seemed innovative and exciting then. They also chimed with the "Shock of the New."

Now they just seem hackneyed and old hat. I think that they were novel but not particularly artistic ideas that, by some fluke, caught on in a big way.

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