Warhol himself did much to foster this phenomenon; with his films, magazine,
paintings, and prints he invited an
enormous number of people to occupy a central place in his art.
The producer Daniel Melnick, a major Minimalist collector, has said that his 1980 Agnes Martin
painting, Untitled
Number 9, gives him «an
enormous sense
of calm and tranquil insight into my Taoist readings.»