Word: warholism
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...surprising and almost Japanese loveliness. In sunlight, it offers a porous, feathering shade. Arriving in front of an expensive house in San Angelo, the mesquite completes a curious transition-from being a pest on the ranch to being a kind of artifact, an authenticating item of regional culture. Andy Warhol may have been working with the same general principle when he moved soup cans into art museums...
...paid-squelched through hock-deep gutter slush into the theater. There was a satisfactory array of the famous on hand, and the famous-for-being-famous, somewhat too swaddled against the cold to glitter: Arlene Francis, Paul Simon, Norman Mailer, Mrs. Frank Sinatra, Adolph Green, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Andy Warhol, Christopher Walken and Liza Minnelli. It is important at such events that especially celebrated ladies be whisked quickly through the crowd before the groundlings can become unruly in their worship, and Nastassia Kinski, one of the film's stars, wanly beautiful in a white coat, was duly whisked...
...Andy Warhol would bring in all kinds of hip fans from the Village, but the sportswriters would have more fun with Billy Carter, and he's already got the belly for the job. In short, there are lots of alternatives to choosing some former left fielder who's coached in the minors for 15 years...
...Andy Warhol, pop artist, on his creative aspirations: "If I had my way, I'd paint Campbell soup cans every day. It's just so easy, and you don't have to think. It's just too hard to think...
...sitters in advance. None of them is famous for being famous, except at the SoHo level of celebrity-some being, in fact, well-known artists, like the sculptor Richard Serra or the composer Philip Glass. Thus what Close proposes is a kind of portraiture diametrically opposite to Andy Warhol's images of Marilyn or Liz, where the painting, an icon of the Star, adapts itself to the intrusive power of repetition and generalization. With Close, there is no generalization at all. None of his faces has a role. There are no costumes, props or traces of social relationships...