For Andrew, his art was an extension of himself. He laid out his fears, desires and beliefs for the world to see in a sophisticated language encoded by his complex mind and difficult temper, which refused to let the world reach his heart so easily. During his life, his biggest moral dilemma centered on a simple question: how not to hurt others and be happy at the same time? When he was fifteen years old, he saw the official end of his parents' marriage; his father had a five-year-old daughter from an out-of-wedlock relationship and had finally decided it was time to marry his long-term mistress. Andrew's mother, who had never been an example of candor or tenderness, blamed her only son for the abandonment of her husband, who took with him most of the billion-dollar fortune she had worked s
