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We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

Andy Warhol

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Andy Warhol
Age: 58 †
Born: 1928
Born: August 6
Died: 1987
Died: February 22
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