Catholicism in Andy Warhol’s pop art style

According to modern art historians, the life and work of the outstanding representative of American avantgarde A. Warhol are imbued with secret religious motifs. Turning to the biography and works of the artist, the author of the current study proves that Andy concealed his confessional affiliation from others, which was helped by the aesthetics of pop art. In his creative work, which plays the role of prayer practice, he presented Catholicism to the public in a transformed form, i.e. through the images and things of the consumer society. The idea of the temporality of life lay behind the banality of the depicted. The author of the article proves that the serial nature of the paintings and the emphasis on the form veiled the idea of temporality, giving sacredness to the depicted and turning the object into an idol or fetish. The “Factories” organized by the artist were sacred space where everyone worshiped Andy as the “Pope” of pop art. The undertaken analysis revealed the hidden sphere of the media artist, who was afraid of exposing his reputation as the king of the outrageous.