A Comment About

Andy Warhol vs. Art

April 6, 2008 - 12:00 am - by Roger Kimball
The above poster
2008-04-09 13:54:54

Mr Wahlen: I know I don’t master the English tongue but my reasoning is still very good – my eyes can truly See. I can also paint very well. Anyway it just happens that AT has just issued a great article on this very topic called “Who is an Uncle Tom?”

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/04/post_11.html.

Now please ignore me. You are too arrogant to be called a friend. More a moralist than a true thinker. With all your posture and self-aggrandizement, you have been able to prove nothing. Just reveal your own personal bias. Your own type of ‘hucksterism’.

ART goes deeper and much higher than one’s own little self. I believe The conservative movement is so much better than this. Otherwise I would have to go where I don’t belong and call myself a liberal… Maybe you should change party instead.

The only ‘good news’ is that there are plenty of Warhol-haters already on the Left!

The funniest part is that most left-leaning art critics can still not formulate very well his work. Is it a celebration of America and capitalism or is it exactly the opposite? Believing Warhol was mocking everyone and everything, they consequently must assume that he was the biggest hypocrite of all. Which is already the norm amongst all the successful democrats anyway. Politicians and Hollywood celebrities mainly; no Artists.

So you see he is still misunderstood even by his critics. Like The America they love and hate at the same time because they don’t have a clear vision of what’s good and what’s bad. Just nice sentences, big sermons and strong ideological beliefs. Unfortunately mostly shallow.

For the few who possess a pure heart, they will accept the truth when they will receive it, the others will stay the same pompous hypocrites they already are (whether lefties or righties).

Last irony, Warhol felt no guilt because he always played the game straight!! Like a real Artist and a true Master. Like a Man.