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Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
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"You
You own a ‘Warhol’ not an artwork with a title". This comment about Andy Warhol’s art captures the
powerful influence of one of the most celebrated artists of the last third of the twentieth century. A
leading exponent of the Pop Art movement of the 1960s, Warhol’s mass-produced art captured the
supposed banality of the commercial culture of the United States.
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Keenly aware of the ‘self’ in the world and in art as an repetition remakes her face into an eerie,
artificial construct, Warhol frequently represented himself in inanimate mask. Warhol’s use of the silkscreen
his art in ways both revelatory and evasive. In his first self- technique further “flattens” the star’s face. By
portraits, from 1963, Warhol is pictured in a raincoat and screening broad planes of unmodulated colour,
dark glasses — the stereotypical image of disguise. In his the artist removes the gradual shading that
1966-67 self-portraits, facial features dissolve into patterns creates a sense of three-dimensional volume and
of layered colour — this is the self-portrait as a disappearing suspends the actress in an abstract void. Through
act. By the late 1980s, Warhol’s self-image was virtually a these choices, Warhol transforms the literal
complete fabrication. flatness of the paper-thin publicity photo into an
emotional “flatness,” and the actress into a kind
of automaton. In this way, the painting reflects
that “Marilyn Monroe,” was a manufactured star
with a made-up name, merely a one-dimensional
(sex) symbol.
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