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In all of Andy Warhol's diaries and writitng no lover ior significanrt lover was ever metioned. Futher mnore no one has ever come forward asnd say theyt were a lover of Andy Warhol. "Hw [sic] was claimed by the gay community as one of their own. However, it is a difficult claim that was rejected by Warhol and difficult to prove as not one of Andy's lovers ever came forward (assuming he had any, as none are mentioned in his diary). The only possible evidence that Warhol was gay is an unhealthy obsession with Truman Capote that Warhol continued until Capote's mother asked him to stop sending letters" (A Pop Art response to Modernism). Andy's love life is one thing people still argue about and are not sure of today. But Anbdy once said The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting," (Warhol, ). .
Altohugh Andy has directly denied it ther gay comunioty still claims Warhol as their own. And books have been released about the "queer Warhol" . This couyld be attributed to the numerous pieces of art thaty feature male nudes. But infact Andy was more facisnated with the figure and beuty of of the female body.
Andy Warhol also made films. But none of these films ever achived the prestige of his paintings. Some of his films included, "blowjob", "Empire", and Sleep". The film Empire consited of six hour of a single shot of the emipe state building. Blowjob was a headshot of a young man reciving oral sex for 20 minutes. And sleeo was a half hour of a man sleeping. .
The intuectuall and artictic influences of Andy Warhol are all around us. Hie was mostly influneceded by the machine of consumerism and the lack of orgigiianlity in every day life. Andy Warhol tried to emphisze his unoriginality in his art, but at the same time he tried to be orginal in apperences and his life style. "The Pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second--comics, picnic tables, men's trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators, Coke bottles--all the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried so hard not to notice at all.
