In the gallery, Orlando
Andy Warhol
(Pittsburgh, PA, 1928-1987, New York, NY)
Flowers, 1970
Screenprint on paper; edition 204/250
Like several other pop artists, Andy Warhol, the pre-eminent Pop artist of the 1960s, often chose his subjects from newspaper or magazine images, transferred that image to a silkscreen and printed it on canvas or paper. Such is the case with Flowers where he appropriated Patricia Caulfield's photograph of hibiscus from Modern Photography.
Warhol adapted the image through cropping and enlargement. The flowers have been magnified and the blades of grass in the background abstracted. Squeezing the paint through a screen with a squeegee, the flowers become broad flat areas of color, unrelated to the original botanical specimen. Only the pistils and stamens refer specifically back to the original photograph. For each colored flower, a different printing screen was used. Warhol has purposely let the screen slip in certain places so that the colors do not quite line up correctly.
(Andy was not always known for his meticulous craftsmanship and the print editions were a collaborative effort so I question the last line.)
In the gallery, Orlando
Andy Warhol
(Pittsburgh, PA, 1928-1987, New York, NY)
Flowers, 1970
Screenprint on paper; edition 204/250
Like several other pop artists, Andy Warhol, the pre-eminent Pop artist of the 1960s, often chose his subjects from newspaper or magazine images, transferred that image to a silkscreen and printed it on canvas or paper. Such is the case with Flowers where he appropriated Patricia Caulfield's photograph of hibiscus from Modern Photography.
Warhol adapted the image through cropping and enlargement. The flowers have been magnified and the blades of grass in the background abstracted. Squeezing the paint through a screen with a squeegee, the flowers become broad flat areas of color, unrelated to the original botanical specimen. Only the pistils and stamens refer specifically back to the original photograph. For each colored flower, a different printing screen was used. Warhol has purposely let the screen slip in certain places so that the colors do not quite line up correctly.
(Andy was not always known for his meticulous craftsmanship and the print editions were a collaborative effort so I question the last line.)