- bmonkey325 329 days agoIt shows that despite being given a macintosh by Steve Jobs personally , a black and white Mac wasn’t as compelling as an Amiga. A high resolution computer with colour would prove to be what Warhol could actually use . The colour Mac that Steve Jobs said was coming “soon” was still 2 years away.
- KODust 329 days agoWarhol was so impressed by how usable the Amiga was he thereafter ignored it and all other computers for the rest of his life.
- KODust 329 days agoDon't get me wrong -- a lot of cool stuff got done with the Amiga. But Warhol was an interesting footnote at best.
- bmonkey325 329 days agoIt just legitimized computer art even if it was ever fleeting. Shows he could excel in any medium. Just as nobody really talks about the sculptures of Picasso or a Jackson Pollock still life
- KODust 325 days agoYou didn't need an Amiga for that; many artists did 1-bit art on early Macs: https://www.macpaint.org/historical_gallery.html
- bmonkey325 325 days agoFYI that site isn’t safe. It has a cert for a different domain.