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The strangest thing was
Andy had a separate painting office at the factory
on a separate floor. So one day I had to go up to that
floor to ask him a question and I saw that his hands were
full of paint and he was doing these portraits of his mother,
but like finger painting. And the paint was really thick and it was the most impasto,
the most textured, and I said, "What are they?" He said, "Oh, it's my mother,
it's my mother." Now, it turned out that
his mother had died that year, 1972, but he didn't tell anybody. He didn't even tell Jed Johnson, his boyfriend, who had been
living with him since he got shot
Andy had a separate painting office at the factory
on a separate floor. So one day I had to go up to that
floor to ask him a question and I saw that his hands were
full of paint and he was doing these portraits of his mother,
but like finger painting. And the paint was really thick and it was the most impasto,
the most textured, and I said, "What are they?" He said, "Oh, it's my mother,
it's my mother." Now, it turned out that
his mother had died that year, 1972, but he didn't tell anybody. He didn't even tell Jed Johnson, his boyfriend, who had been
living with him since he got shot
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The strangest thing was
Andy had a separate painting
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office at the factory
on a separate floor.
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So one day I had to go up to that
floor to ask him a question
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and I saw that his hands were
full of paint and he was doing
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these portraits of his mother,
but like finger painting.
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And the paint was really thick and
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it was the most impasto,
the most textured, and I said,
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"What are they?"
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He said, "Oh, it's my mother,
it's my mother."
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Now, it turned out that
his mother had died that year, 1972,
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but he didn't tell anybody.
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He didn't even tell Jed Johnson,
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his boyfriend, who had been
living with him since he got shot.
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Movie Summary
He was a pioneering artist and cultural icon and his work is a history of 20th-century America. A country reinventing itself as seen through an artist's eye. 3 part documentary looking at 20th century America through the life of W...
