Twenty years. It has been twenty years since he died. Andy Warhol passed away quietly in the night, alone in a hospital bed. He did not die how he lived. Andy was not a man to do things quietly or alone. To be honest for most of my life Warhol was a name I knew, but I did not know much about the artist. His art and his life made him a celebrity. Something few artist achieve. Andy Warhol was a household name. Your mom knows who Andy Warhol is. And his work has impacted your life. No doubt about it. Warhol left his mark on both the art world and pop culture. He made pop culture art in and of itself. Looking around today one can see how he was a bit ahead of his time. I think Andy would be quite at home in the MySpace YouTube world we live in now. These days we each can give ourselves our own 15 minutes of fame, just like Warhol predicted. Andy Warhol was a commercial artist, a painter, a writer, a publisher, a film maker, a business man, and a music producer just to name a few of the highlights of his life. He desired to be a machine that recorded the world around him so I wanted to honor that by writing a few words on the 20th anniversary of his death.
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