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{{quote|''"In the future, [[Fifteen Minutes of Fame|everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.]]"''|'''Andy Warhol'''}}

Andy Warhol was a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|visual artist, filmmaker, producer, printmaker, icon, author, part-time model and clothing designer]].

Born in 1928, in Pittsburgh, Andy Warhol was a sickly child and often hospitalized. He developed a [[Chekhov's Gun|phobia of hospitals]] and was pathologically shy. Interested in drawing, he had a lot of time to practice. He went to art school and moved to New York. He started in commercial art illustration, but radically changed his style. Andy became famous for his hyper-saturated representations of everyday items, adhering to the concept that the everyday is beautiful. Famous pieces include ''Campbell's Soup Cans'', ''Marilyn Diptych'' and ''Elvis''.

Andy founded [[Eccentric Townsfolk|The Factory]]: a menagerie of his friends, drag queens, musicians, sexual radicals, models, drug dealers, free-thinkers and other oddities. Many of the "Warhol Superstars" including Edie Sedgwick, Betsey Johnson and Gerard Malanga went on to become stars in their individual fields. Other Factory regulars included Salvador Dalí, Allen Ginsberg, [[William S. Burroughs|William Burroughs]], [[The Rolling Stones|Mick Jagger]], Truman Capote and [[Velvet Underground|The Velvet Underground]].

Things changed when [[Straw Feminist|Valerie Solanas]] shot Warhol. Warhol survived the shooting but the event had a permanent effect on his life and work. He said of the shooting, [[All Just a Dream|"Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life]]. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal. [[Reality Is Unrealistic|The movies make emotions look so strong and real]], whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television – you don't feel anything. [[Tear Jerker|Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television."]]

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== [[Comics]] ==

* Was a viewpoint character in an issue of [[Neil Gaiman]]'s run on ''[[Marvelman]]''.

== [[Film]] ==

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== [[Live Action Television]] ==

* ''[[The Love Boat]]'' Yes, you read that right. He appeared as himself on an episode of ''The Love Boat''. Think about it.

* ''[[Noel ~~Fieldings~~ Luxury Comedy]]'' has an inexplicably robotic Warhol as Noel's cleaner.

* ''[[Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy]]'' has an inexplicably robotic Warhol as Noel's cleaner.

== [[Opera]] ==

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* [[Asexuality]]: Often speculated, but the more general consensus is that he was homosexual. He may, however, [[Celibate Hero|have been a virgin]].

* [[Collector of the Strange]]: Cookie jars, wigs, and other various items.

* [[Erotic Eating]]: He did an entire film of a drag queen eating a banana. It can be seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSEYQvEplbo here].

* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: ''Taylor Mead's Ass''.

* [[Freud Was Right]]: The cover he made for ''The Velvet Underground & Nico''.

** The cover of [[The Rolling Stones]]' ''Sticky Fingers'' was even more blatant.

* [[Hidden Depths]]: He was a devout Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic for his entire life, attending Mass (though not taking communion) almost daily and even (according to his priest) making a few converts.

** His spiritual life also included creating a large number of religious-themed paintings, found only after his death, which he never publicly displayed or marketed as he considered them works of personal devotion. Warhol also took great pride in funding his nephew's studies for the priesthood.

* [[In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It]]: ''Andy Warhol's Dracula'' and ''Andy Warhol's Bad''.

* [[In Name Only]]:"Andy Warhol's Dracula" and "Andy Warhol's Frankenstein". He had almost nothing to do with them.

* [[Le Film Artistique]]: Nearly all of his films fall under this category.

* [[Leave the Camera Running]]: So, so many of his films. Notoriously, eight hours of the Empire State Building were filmed because he just liked to "watch time go by".

* [[Mad Artist]]: Read a biography on Andy Warhol. ANY biography.

* [[The Muse]]: Most consider his to have been Edie Sedgwick.

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: In the Preston & Child novels, [[Agent Pendergast]]'s looks are often compared with Warhol's. Such comparisons weren't made of Mason Eckhart in ''[[Mutant X]]'' -- but he's pretty transparently an ''eeeevil'' Andy Warhol.

* [[Post Modernism]]: Was one of the primary influences.

* [[Take That]]: The film ''Taylor Mead's Ass'' was made after a critic said of another one of Andy's films that "... people don't want to see an hour and a half of Taylor Mead's ass". ''Taylor Mead's Ass'' was exactly that.