Andy Warhol exhibition

I went to an exhibition of Andy Warhol's work in the Ashmolean gallery, Oxford. It featured a range of his work - some his films, his later work looking at religion and political subjects, and his portraits of famous people. Seeing this work in person, you could really see the value of the silkscreen process he used, the detail of which I think is often lost online. Since this process included transferring photographs onto painted backgrounds, and occasionally adding more detail with paint on top - it creates this interesting balance between the image being photo-real mixed with a sense of texture and mark-making created through the paint and silkscreen process. Despite this however I'm not sure how highly I'd value the actual aesthetic of Warhol's work, I think the most interesting thing about him as an artist were his ideas and the way in which he viewed the world. (Something that didn't know about him as well is that he was a commercial illustrator before he became the famous illustrator he is today!)