Andy Warhol's Amiga art confirms him as a true hero for our digital age

Tech detective work on some old computer disks has restored work by the artist who was our greatest visual prophet

It had to happen. Andy Warhol's experiments in digital art have been rediscovered. Of course they have how could the most prophetic artist of the 20th century have missed out on the birth struggles of the 21st?

Warhol wrote the blueprint for our time. He knew that everyone was going to be famous for 15 minutes and that, as a consequence, fame would melt into banality. He could see that art would become as easy to make as taking a Polaroid, that portraiture would give way to the democracy of the selfie as he demonstrated in photo-booth portraits taken as early as the 1960s.

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