Asked to name his home town, Andy Warhol would whisper, “I come from nowhere.” This was true, more or less: Warhol came from Pittsburgh, an industrial city so grim that H L Mencken said it reduced “the whole aspiration of Man to a joke”. The word “smog” was coined for Pittsburgh; some critics think Warhol’s lurid palette recalled the dyes that made the city’s rivers run purple. It was a place to get away from, and, 60 years ago, Andy did.
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Source:Pittsburgh: the ideas factory
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