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Art after Warhol (November 2008)
Recently a colleague described Warhol as the Dow Jones of the art market. I quickly realized how true that is. But Warhol’s greatest impact has been his influence on
art itself. His work is the objectification of commercialism turned art. Picture a Campbell’s soup-can on a canvas. A copy of a copy with no original.
“One day an artist need only point, and the object will be considered art.”
The continual deconstruction of art, from DADA in the early 20th Century, until Pop art at the end, has brought us to an unsustainable cynicism. Consider this quote by Andy
Warhol:
A man sees what looks like an ordinary soap-pad carton in a shop window and, needing to ship some books, asks the shopkeeper whether he can have
it. The shop turns out to be an art gallery and the shopkeeper a dealer who says: “That is a work of art, just now worth thirty-thousand dollars.”
A man sees what looks like Warhol’s Brillo Box in what looks like an art gallery, and asks the dealer, who turns out to be a shopkeeper, how
much it is. The latter says the man can have it, he was going to throw it away anyway, it was placed in the window temporarily after it was unpacked.
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