Artists & Illustrators - UK (2020-04)

ANDY WARHOL

ABOVEAndy

Warhol,Marilyn

Diptych,1962,

acryliconcanvas,

205x145cmeach

LEFTAndyWarhol,

Flowers,1964,

offsetlithograph,

56x56cm

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EMBRACE REPETITION

Andy Warhol’s first solo exhibition

of Pop Art took place in New York in

1962. It was here that he debuted his
      first silkscreen-printed canvases
      featuring repeated images of subjects
      including dollar bills and soup cans.
      “The reason I’m painting this way is
      that I want to be a machine,” he
      famously told Art News, a reference
      to his newly-discovered process.
      While repeating the same motif
      may seem like a lazy way to fill a
      canvas, I like to think of Warhol’s
      approach in terms of Claude Monet’s
      series paintings, which depicted the
      same subject from the same angle
      under differing conditions.
      Monet painted haystacks,
      waterlilies and buildings like Rouen
      Cathedral and the Houses of
      Parliament in different lights and
      times of day. In much the same way,
      none of the 112 bottles in 1962’s
      Green Coca-Cola Bottles look like one
      © 2019 THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS, INC/ARTISTS RIGHT SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK AND DACS, LONDON another. By using a process that is