![]() Now these works really hearken back to an early technique which is Warhol's blotted line. ![]() But its abstraction interpreted through some thing that exists, and that is the concept of the Rorschach. “Warhol makes a series of paintings that take an abstract motif. Warhol then made several paintings of the same subject which got tighter and tighter, and this one looks almost identical to the advertisement on which its based." So he along with other artists Lichtenstein, Rosenquist, they’re still grappling with the vestiges of abstract expressionism. Warhol even said can you really make a painting without drips and brush marks and still have it be considered a painting. But what is especially interesting here is how this before and after is key in terms of looking at Warhol’s painting process – there’s an earlier version of where the drips and the brush marks of abstract expression are still evident. Warhol was unhappy with his own nose, so there’s certainly an biographical read here. Before and After is a very key work because it is an advertisement for nose surgery, for rhinoplasty. "Beginning in 1960, Warhol began to make paintings with very direct references to advertisements, things that he found not in the pages in Vogue or Glamour, but that were more likely located in the National Enquirer and in the back pages. Learn more about this work in our Most Famous Artworks in the World video series. So for everyone who always sees Warhol as someone who makes these identical images, really close scrutiny of these works tells quite the opposite story." And even the way Warhol begins to let the image deteriorate, which is purely done by the pressure of the squeegee – pressing the ink through the screen, or because the screen became clogged and Warhol just allowed that to be the case. She’s really a product of the star system and the studio system, and so Warhol could understand that notion of constructing an image. You can see her as a drag queen, she was a heartthrob, the blonde bombshell, she was also a highly constructed image. Now Monroe here you could argue functions on a variety of levels. He had been working previously on a series of paintings about Elizabeth Taylor, and then he said “but then Marilyn died,” and so he had to do Marilyn. First, it shows something about Warhol’s awareness of topicality. ![]() " Marilyn Diptych, 1962 is one of Warhol’s masterpieces, and this is the case for a variety of reasons. "In fact, in many ways, it was in film that Warhol was at his most avant-garde." "Warhol pushed to its absolute limit every medium in which he engaged, and his experiments with film were no exception," says De Salvo, co-curator of the exhibition. A selection of these works chosen by Claire K Henry, the Whitney's assistant curator of the Andy Warhol Film Project, will be screened throughout the exhibition – both as part of it, shown continuously inside a black-box gallery, as well as in the museum's theatre. They featured many of his Factory "superstars," including Edie Sedgwick, Taylor Mead and Paul America, as well as a variety of underground actors. These span a variety of forms, from the simple recordings of his friends and scenes from daily life, to more complex scripted productions with shoots on location. Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York.Īn avid documentarian of his world and those in it, Warhol created hundreds of movies alongside his paintings and photographs. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. ![]()
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