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The Crazy Real-Life Story Of Andy Warhol Hulton Archive/Getty Images By William J. Wright/Dec. 29, 2020 9:38 am EDT Controversial and enigmatic, Andy Warhol was one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Arguably, there is no other artist who so embraced and reflected the zeitgeist of the modern era. Beginning his career as a commercial artist, Warhol instinctively and consciously blurred the lines between art and commerce as well as good taste and bad. Transfiguring product logos and celebrity images into works that both commented on the banality of consumer culture and celebrated its uniquely American qualities, Andy Warhol, with his famous, screen-printed soup cans and garish movie star portraits, redefined fine art for a generation. Through his Factory studio, he even changed the artist s role in creation, employing assistants to manufacture his works on a virtual assembly line. ....