Thalassa
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Mmmkay - wait, no, scratch that - I was thinking ISFJ by the way he took care of his people in the Factory (he was very generous and supported them) and he was very religious despite his rebellious lifestyle going to confession and mass all of the time, and also the factory-style nature of his print-making, as well as his grasp of art and aesthetics.
BUT THEN, I thought, an INFJ could also have many of those qualities, and I think he actually was an Ni dom *possibly* because I gave it a lot of thought in response to something my ex said about Edie Sedgwick being "more of an artist" and I realized...
"So - I was thinking about Andy Warhol, and what you said about Edie being more of an artist, and I agree somewhat, I think Andy exploited people and used other people for his projects...but at the same time I think he had one BIG IDEA that has influenced our entire culture, and maybe we don't think about it because it has become The Way Things Are, but Andy Warhol made commentaries with his paintings of people like Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley as a way to mock American culture, to see it as ironic...and his paintings of Brillo and Campbell's soup were commentaries on American corporations and commercialism...even calling his establishment The Factory was a political statement about the state of things with working class people (his father was a coal miner, I'm sure you know that) and all of that has influenced our current culture in a big huge way...also he said in the future everyone would be famous for fifteen minutes...and look at our culture now with reality television and youtube and the Internet...Andy Warhol was kind of a genius but I think it's harder for people our age to see it because we take it for granted because it's become our culture. Andy Warhol's factory was a huge influence on the way our culture is now, and in the way we see the world as Americans. I would go as far as to say we live in a post-Warhol culture right now. He was like some kind of idiot savant prophet of our age. I totally see what you're saying though...his paintings do seem empty, I wouldn't want a Cambell's soup can hanging on my wall, and I think he exploited other people like he did to Edie Sedgwick...but it's the idea behind it that really was kind of genius when he started doing all of this stuff in the early 60's. At that point it hadn't been done before. "
So that's my guess for why he may have been a more future focused INFJ, but he very well could have been a mature ISFJ at 35 when he was doing all of these things who had devloped inferior Ne due to age and life experience.
But now I think INFJ more. Sorry if this has seemed off-topic.
