Andy Warhol: Copy the Self

Andy Warhol said to “do everything” because doing everything “seemed feasible.” This attitude towards mixture of art may explain his success in his last unbridled efforts after death (Warhol was completely changed after the assassination attempt and believed that he was living in a dream or actually dead) when ‘redoing’ artworks, such as The Last Supper, to create a sense of assumption of Da Vinci’s and others’ creations.

He transformed from a commercial artist into a business artist, commissioning portraiture of those who could afford it and establishing himself within a group of famous artists over the last few centuries as a masterful painter, as well as businessman.

“Art can’t seem this strange and new without some barrier being broken.” He couldn’t distinguish between life and death and had fear of being held in no place at all. The late works of Warhol broke into the living,

Warhol was also able to revisit old subject matter in an ethereal way since he was ‘dead.’ Being able to “copy myself” was of enormous interest to him. Versatility was his strength. By endlessly reproducing his own and others’ images, strength was held in numbers; the longevity of his art works relying on the system of roots that he created.

The exhibition gallery of works demonstrates Warhol in radicant form. There was always some new idea of presenting his art that he firmly established himself into, but with reminders of the past.