Andy Warhol Visit: Artwork #2

Andy Warhol's very famous and almost comical piece, Brillo 1964, leaves the viewer with many questions.  This is so, because truly with this artwork Warhol is asking his own questions.  This piece consists of exact replica Brillo boxes stacked upon each other, an atypical example of art.  Warhol has taken an item from daily life, copied it a few times, stuck those copies together, put it in a musuem and called it art.  Therefore, Warhol prods the defintion of art, he twists and manipulates it, asking if a daily replicated item is considered art, then what isn't considered art?  He leaves his viewers contemplating the same question.  Warhol then asks a second question, what and who is an artist?  Warhol has taken himself, the artist, completely out of the piece of art itself.  There is no proof, no handprint, no mark of human contact of the piece.  Thus, Warhol has taken the human out of the art, he has become a machine.  Therefore, the observer of Brillo is left to wonder, is Andy Warhol truly an artist? Is a machine an artist? The piece will not answer those questions, instead it provokes its viewers to find the answers themselves.