He enjoyed the New York City night scene, and wouldn’t mingle with the elite. Instead, he would quietly observe their interactions. Many claimed Andy had mood swings; one moment he would be the life of the party, and the next minute he would bring down everyone’s mood.

In an event that caught most of America’s attention, Andy was shot in the chest by Valerie Solanas, who started a society dubbed, the Society for Cutting Up Men (SCUM) – a display of extreme feminism in action. While he wasn’t killed, he was injured and had numerous health problems following the shooting. This, compiled with other physical problems caused Warhol a lot of pain for the next twenty years of his life.

In the 1980s, while Warhol hadn’t disappeared from the American scene, he reemerged into eccentric art circles for his new works displaying Absolut Vodka. In his later works, Warhol tends to mock the media for its nonchalant depiction of violence as a part of everyday, normal life. In his paintings, Red Car Crash, Orange Disaster, and Purple Jumping Man, Warhol uses vivid colors to grab the viewer’s attention and make a strong social comment about the state of media affairs in the United States. Besides his autobiography, his writings and books also include Popism: The Warhol Sixties, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, and A, a novel.