I'm not big on Picasso, but I respect his work. Kandinsky, Pollock, the same. Klee's work I like a great deal. Basquiat I'm on the fence.

Warhol was brilliant. The entire point of his existence was to be famous, to turn popular culture in on itself to reveal things about ourselves. The execution of the work wasn't as important as the subject matter itself. He simultaneously loved and hated the American culture he saw slipping into hollow, media-driven sensationalism. That his work became exceptionally popular with the very cultural leaders he seeked to critique made his work all the more ironic.