A group of artists including Mickalene Thomas and Julia Wachtel are interviewed in the NYT this week, discussing the impact Andy Warhol had on their lives and art. “I remember going to MoMA and seeing his Campbell Soup Cans (1962), and it was at that moment I decided to become an artist,” Wachtel says. “What makes Warhol the gold standard is the utter elegance, simplicity and directness of his paintings — his ability to distill a world of information out of a picture through minimal but brilliant intervention.”
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