Did Andy Warhol have Asperger's?

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^ He doesn't "need" to have anything to validate or substantiate his existence.
it's just a ponderance and an often considered speculation - particularly in the art world. and i doubt what any of us says on this little forum really matters much or has much significance beyond the realm of our own navel-gazing anyway. (even if i would like to think that it does.)

as for his "social' style...watch some of the doco films on him.

There is a fantastic PBS documentary called "American Masters : Andy Warhol" which briefly suggests warhol was slightly autistic. He didn't like to be touched, tended to answer interviewers with a single "Um ... yea" or "Um ... no.",
was fascinated with repetition, worked like a dog, had a fascinating and unique affect.

One poster asked who he is. To attempt an answer, Andy Warhol is sometimes called "the only truly American artist."
His themes were mass consumption and mass production - he called his studio "the factory". His most famous work is a collection of dozens of realistic depictions of soup cans. He was the foremost figure in a movement called "Pop Art",

He would often produce hundreds of identical - or slightly different - renditions of the same thing. He played with notions of originality and fame.

He rendered in broad areas of solid color. No depth or texture. One critic said, "there is nothing behind it. you look into it and are thrown right back onto the surface."

He famously quipped, "everybody will be famous for 15 minutes."

Warhol was also a cultural touchstone in the late 60's. It seems everybody who impacted the culture : truman capote, bob dillon, etc spent some time with warhol.

THe first celebrity artist. Everybody wanted to have him come give lectures and such.

So he'd send imposters. He mass produced himself

(never ask an aspie anything lol!)

There is a fantastic PBS documentary called "American Masters : Andy Warhol" which briefly suggests warhol was slightly autistic. He didn't like to be touched, tended to answer interviewers with a single "Um ... yea" or "Um ... no.",
was fascinated with repetition, worked like a dog, had a fascinating and unique affect.

One poster asked who he is. To attempt an answer, Andy Warhol is sometimes called "the only truly American artist."
His themes were mass consumption and mass production - he called his studio "the factory". His most famous work is a collection of dozens of realistic depictions of soup cans. He was the foremost figure in a movement called "Pop Art",

He would often produce hundreds of identical - or slightly different - renditions of the same thing. He played with notions of originality and fame.

He rendered in broad areas of solid color. No depth or texture. One critic said, "there is nothing behind it. you look into it and are thrown right back onto the surface."

He famously quipped, "everybody will be famous for 15 minutes."

Warhol was also a cultural touchstone in the late 60's. It seems everybody who impacted the culture : truman capote, bob dillon, etc spent some time with warhol.

THe first celebrity artist. Everybody wanted to have him come give lectures and such.

So he'd send imposters. He mass produced himself

(never ask an aspie anything lol!)

Though related, being social and possessing l33t social skills are different things.

Even though we have a tendency to go on and on about our particular art obsessions, artists throw great parties. And though there are some who will thrive on being the center of attention, I am prone to limit my social interactions at a party (like quite a few other artists) to those few associates who are not bothered by my tendency to shift between babbling about my plans to build a triple cross-draft wood-fired pottery kiln, and being essentially mute.

Artists and Researchers can get away with this sort of thing. In our respective fields, it's not uncommon behavior and thus expected of us.