Fuck Andy Warhol

[alex_antonin]

Just heard an ad for an Andy Warhol exhibition at a local museum. Ugh... Andy Warhol might not have been the cause of the death of American art, but he certainly was one of the people who killed it, with his ugly-ass traced-line paintings of bullshit like soup cans. Which isn't what bothers me about his art. If he'd have called it neo-dadaism, I would have been fine with it. But AFAIK, he didn't. AFAIK, he thought his art was actually worthy of being in museums. Even though anyone with an overhead projector, a photocopier, plastic overhead projection sheets to copy onto, the ability to trace lines onto a canvas, and the ability to paint within lines could have done what Andy Warhol did. "Oooh look at my art, isn't it so special? Aren't I just the bee's fucking knees? Hurr dburr!"