00:00Warhol's arrival at his London gallery is like a royal progress,
00:05the enfant terrible become grand old man of modern art.
00:09But would he reveal much of what is behind the enigmatic image?
00:13This is the first major series of self-portraits for quite a long time.
00:17What prompted this one?
00:22It's just, I ran out of ideas.
00:25But the one thing Warhol has not been short of is ideas.
00:30He's generated enough critical comment to fell a forest or two,
00:34having first shocked the art world in 1962 with his images of Campbell's soup tins.
00:39I should have still been painting it. That would have been a better thing.
00:42Really?
00:43Yeah.
00:44Then somebody can just, it'd be like a store,
00:47and they just come in and ask you for a can of soup,
00:49and you just, that was just the easiest way to do something.
00:52Because everybody paints the same picture over and over again anyway, so.
00:59So you could have stuck with the soup tins and the Brillo boxes?
01:02Well, just a soup can.
01:04What was the interest to you then in that Campbell's soup tin?
01:07What gave you the idea of doing that?
01:10Oh, I used to eat it every day. I still do, so.
01:14I don't know, and Mr. Billy Boy, I think, has some too.
01:17Are you American, Mr. Billy Boy?
01:19No, from Mars, I think.
01:21No, Mars.
01:23I mean, it's Christopher Mockete.
01:25I work for Interview Magazine, Andy's Magazine.
01:28How much are you involved with Interview Magazine?
01:31Oh, a lot.
01:32I give a cover away every minute,
01:34and then I have to go and hide.
01:39Is that, though, more important to you at the moment
01:41than your own work and your silk screens,
01:43or what's most of your time spent doing?
01:46Most of my time is just to get up in the morning.
01:48After the soup cans came a series of warholised photographs
01:53of leading rock and movie figures, notably Elvis Presley,
01:57and again proving that he had a gift for selecting his images,
02:00that other screen immortal, Marilyn Monroe.
02:02And always concerned with the grocery store,
02:06another American archetype, the Coke bottle.
02:08How much do you think of your success as an artist,
02:12probably the best known in the world at the moment,
02:14is as a result of your own personal image,
02:18yourself as a work of art?
02:19Well, that's what everybody says.
02:24I don't know.
02:24I work.
02:24I work all the time.
02:26And work often seems to involve being the apparent calm
02:29at the centre of a storm that his presence creates,
02:32which of course contributes to the art itself.
02:35But is Warhol still doing interesting work?
02:39I think it's an image of our time.
02:41I think that it's a paradoxical image, isn't it?
02:48It's blank and yet it's extremely intelligent.
02:52It's frightening and yet it's romantic in a way.
02:58It's all sorts of opposites combined in one image,
03:01but that is Warhol after all.
03:04There's one nice picture painted about 100 times different colours,
03:07but I mean I think it's just a bit boring, to be honest.
03:10He was always sort of particularly adept at capturing a time
03:13and possibly the time isn't really interesting anymore
03:16and that's why the art isn't really particularly interesting.
03:19I'm excited by them. I think they're good.
03:22I think Andy is one of the greatest artists of this century.
03:26Meanwhile, Warhol is collecting between $10,000 and $65,000 a picture.
03:31But is he really making some hidden comment at our expense?
03:34No, I just do whatever I do, just to get by.
03:40No, I don't think it's allowed anywhere.
03:43This is also the bestness I want to show.
03:45It seems to have a noting that this is World Warhol,
03:47just to guide my name.
03:48To do an interesting quote,
03:50Oh, my God.
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04:04but you don't care,
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