IntroductionAndy Warhol, pop artist or work of pop art?Many people thought that Andy Warhol's personality was very plastic, fake and strange. Warhol constructed an image of a cold, manufactured person who he presented to the public eye as himself. However, was this his true personality or perhaps one of his most successful artistic performances? I intend to explain how Warhol's fascination with Hollywood had such a great influence on his work and appearance. Warhol wanted his character to become as plastic and manufactured as his mass-produced works. He limited his daily wardrobe to black and white, so that even when his photograph was printed, he would be as easily recognizable as the black and white figure seen in public. Warhol often claimed that he wanted to be seen as a machine: "I think everyone should be a machine...The reason I paint this way is because I want to be a machine." » (Swenson, 1963) Warhol emphasized this idea in certain interviews where he behaved rather placidly, asking the interviewer to answer questions for him, giving one-word answers, speaking through someone 'another, or just sitting quietly without responding at all. Why don't you just tell me the words, they will come out of my mouth" (Interview with Andy Warhol, 1966 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0KxWkXoCzo) Was Warhol really as shy and introverted as We believed him or did he construct the perfect image of Pop Art? “If you want to know everything about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and there I am. There is nothing behind it. » (Honnef, 1990, p. 45) Chapter one: The creation of Andy Warhol. Warhol began life as Andrew Warhola, the son of Slovak immigrants. It had always been... middle of paper ......ma that he had worked so hard to create. Everything Warhol saved from his life has been archived and is subject to daily inspection to uncover new meanings for his art or hidden secrets about his infamous, always luckless life. If Warhol had any secrets, they were well concealed, but he lived his life as if he had always wanted to live in the spotlight, befriending the rich and famous and getting his own "fifteen minutes of glory.” However, is this the only life Warhol led? At the end of each day, when he was without his Superstars, did he take off his "Andy costume" and become Andrew Warhola again? Or has the line between reality and fantasy become so blurred that Andy Warhol's long-term performance was the only life he lived? We can never really know if his Andy Warhol character was really his identity or if it was in fact the greatest work of Pop Art ever made...