Andy Warhol's Ruthenian Catholicism
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https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2018/01/30/andy...
While this article (which is otherwise fairly word-for-word over the one posted here) asks "What does it say about the world of art if it fails to realize Warhol’s religious vision? There is perhaps a more pressing question: What does it say about Catholics if they fail to see in Warhol’s art one of their own?", I consider - maybe Andy was sceptical about his faith, seeing the amount of money changing hands over church-related goods and services, and found that his ability to obtain wealth through iconography was no less cynical. Hence, how he is perceived as cool and business-like as an artist and entrepreneur.
It's not clear what you're trying to say. According to the article he was quite religious, attending mass nearly daily. Baseless suspicions of skepticism and cynicism seem biased. Also, what does "amount of money changing hands over church-related goods and services" and "obtaining wealth through iconography" mean? Are you claiming the Church is an cynical, money-making business?
I saw this in evangelism, too. There were many artists in the 1980s trying their best to make Christian pop music, but all you could hear was endless attempts by the intelligentsia to make Bono from U2 into some neo-Christian because he was famous and his works might be intepreted in a vaguely Christian-friendly manner. This is one of the ways Christian culture stomps on its artists, and the rather naked fame-chasing disgruntled me once I realized how pervasive it was.
"Can't you see you're not making Christianity better, you're just making rock-n-roll worse."
I mean, I think that's part of why so much classical music is so good; we only hear what people thought was worth preserving and replaying for hundreds of years. I mean, one of my favorite pieces of music overall could be classified as christian music... Beethoven's 9th.
But mostly, I think it's the 'small genre' issue. I mean, I went through a period where I only listened to punk, and then only to certain obscure sub genres of punk, and you get to a point where there's one good band... then sometimes only one good song, and the rest, well, you've filtered on genre rather than quality, so most of it is crap.