Andy Warhol- The undefinable man

Andy Warhol the worlds fascination with the man who helped define a decade
but yet we find it hard to define the man. Who was he? A painter, a celebrity, a commercial illustrator, writer, avant-garde filmmaker, an artist. His origin of birth Pittsburgh, but the birth of Andy, began in the sixties with the famous painting of a soup can, Campbell’s Soup Can, which was the beginning of his “15 minutes of Fame”, and the start of many paintings immortalizing famous American products. “The Factory” an underground studio, embroiled in controversy, rebellion and revolution; musicians, artists and celebrities alike sort refugee, sanctuary within the Studio walls, where Pop Culture flourished, as Warhol’s work revolved around the very essence of Pop Culture, it is what fed him metaphorically speaking. Andy used the ‘The Factory’ literally as a factory where he thought of himself as a machine his desire to make art of mass-produced items but to mass produces the art itself (Murray, 2006). The ideal of production work and limitation of creative thought was the objective; this seems reminiscent of Fordism.
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.
– The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: (From A to B and Back Again), 1975, ISBN 0-15-671720-4
This quote seems to sum up Andy’s feelings towards popular culture and the ambiguous nature of his perspective and the person he is. Andy Warhol seem to be all about art and be able to relate art to life in all its facets "Making money is art, and working is art and good business is the best art."(Wikipedia, 2007).
Andy used art as a means of defining him, he explained his work expressed and meant nothing and that "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol," he said, "just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it." (Murray, 2006). A man that seemed so unaffected and emotionless, is a way to define him, but doing that would be what he would want to be defined as defining him would define him through his art, but he was much more than that, as I think there is much more
to him than just the surface and what lies behind it.