Andy Warhol, just me?

I don't think the Chinese "hair" screens were thousands of years ago... maybe 750 to 1,000?
And I think really they were considered craft, rather than art. Wasn't it mainly used for patterning textiles?

But you're right of course re having lots of people working under fine artists. I'm aware that this is true of (say) Rubens and Rembrandt but understood that the "master" artist would design the concept, paint the most critical parts (like faces and hands), and leave the rest -landscapes, clothing, architecture, and background -whatever - to their team. (I'm sure this wasn't always the case.)

And I admit I hadn't thought of the lithographs - though should have. My knowledge of them, (though equally limited), comes from theatre history. I'm pretty sure I was taught that the first lithographs were handwritten text. Not artwork.
I don't think lithographs were considered art at first either.

Anyway, I'm probably wrong...
And I'm sorry if my comments are nonsense.

The Chinese have been making screen prints for a thousand years. For 200 years +, famous European Artists have been using lithograph prints to make and sell multiple copies of their artistic work ( Manet, ​Gericault, Delacroix). All the great Renaissance artists employed multiple assistants in their studios/bottegas so their works are never just the work of one person.

Every famous person/ celebrity of the last thousand years, had their portrait painted multiple times to publicise their fame, wealth, etc to the world.

"*​Before Warhol, fine art was expected to be unique, emotional, and crafted by the hand of the artist.*"

That is absolute nonsense.

What he did was something new. Many people can paint well. However can anyone think of something that isn’t actually good technically but something that no one else has done before? Anybody can splash paint onto a canvass but did anyone think of doing it before Pollock? I sometimes make my mind go blank ( easy for me!) and then fill it with something new and innovative but it just remains blank.

The trouble, I think is that a unique idea or concept always gets copied so much that even the original appears jaded!
If only we could experience everything always as we first encountered it.

uick way to make money from cheap popular ingredients.

Art is subjective. Personally I like his art & would have loved to have met him.

​Before Warhol, fine art was expected to be unique, emotional, and crafted by the hand of the artist.

He took that entire idea and dumped it. He argued that celebrities were just products (just like soup).

He named his studio The Factory and mass screen printed the work - and didn't even do it all himself.

I think he liked it if the screen prints were slightly misaligned- like cheap fliers.

It really shook up the art world. It was
exciting and neon-soaked. American supermarkets and Hollywood tabloids brought into the gallery, larger than life.

I don't think making them of modern "stars" has the same meaning.
It was extraordinary in its day.
I don't remember having really rregistered Warhol myself till the late 60s.

They seemed pretty wild to me - then in yhd early 70s there was a retrospective at The Tate. I think the prints were everywhere then...

This (below) is about Pop art but I think it's relevant to Warhol (I am no kind of art buff!)... I love this quote:

Popular, transient, expendable, low cost, mass-produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, and Big Business.’
- Richard Hamilton

The prints and the soup cans hit the art scene nearly 65 years ago and I think they must have seemed innovative and exciting then. They also chimed with the "Shock of the New."

Now they just seem hackneyed and old hat. I think that they were novel but not particularly artistic ideas that, by some fluke, caught on in a big way.

As ginny says each to their own, it is a matter of personal taste. I can understand as an Artist that his work may not appeal to you but it does to many people and certainly gave him more than 15 minutes of fame.

Totally agree with you. Still, each to their own I suppose.