Andy Warhol was a central figure in the pop art movement who made art out of easily recognizable icons from American popular culture. He was also a filmmaker, an author, and a notweworthy public figure. His art included themes of consumerism, mass public appeal, and reproduction. Andy Warhol's ideas on the nature of art are, as he writes in his The Philosophy of Andy Warhol,"Making money is art, and working is art and good business is the best art." Because of statement like this, Warhol could have had motives for his work as an artist that would benefit his lifestyle and status. He was known to comment on this aspect of American society though his art; of embracing celebrity and affluence. I would say Warhol's works us a mode of a media saturated universe and prompt evolution through theft.
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