Some artworks were mentioned at the recent WTF Art History Lecture about Andy Warhol (IT WAS EFF-ING FABULOUS) last Saturday: artworks that I hadn’t seen before. You may have seen the Campbell’s soup cans and Marilyn Monroe series countless times, but have you seen these?
Sunsets
Sunset, 40×40″, 1972
Warhol was a big fan of Joseph Albers, and these Sunsets are clearly Albers’ color concepts on a stick. Look how they vibrate! The Sunset series was printed with 472 different color variations, and used only three screens.
Warhol Sunsets prints, set of 8, 1972
Shadows
Shadows, at the Guggenheim Museum, 1978
“…Conceived as one painting in multiple parts, with the final number of canvases being determined by the dimensions of an exhibition space, these 102 silkscreened canvas panels. Shadows were painted with a sponge mop, the streaks and trails it left adding gesture to the picture plane. Seven or eight different screens were used to create the series, as is evidenced in the slight shifts in scales of dark areas as well as the arbitrary presence of spots of light. The “shadows” alternate between positive and negative imprints as they march along the wall of the gallery. In focusing on the shadow to devise light—that is to say, sparks of color—Warhol returns to the quintessential problem of art: perception.” – Guggenheim exhibits
Diamond Dust Shadows
Diamond Dust Shadows, acrylic, diamond dust and silkscreen ink on canvas, 76 x 52″, 1979
One year after Shadows, Warhol created Diamond Dust Shadows with glass or diamond dust. This series could be about abstract/minimalist aesthetic, existentialism, disco, sparkling religious iconography, something else, everything else, or nothing else.
Mao Wallpaper
Mao Wallpaper, detail
Mao Wallpaper, 1973
Some guests have to abruptly leave these displays, from overstimulation and nausea.
Cow Wallpaper (sounds like Mao), produced in 1966
Rorschach
Warhol misunderstood, and thought that Rorschach ink blots were to be made by the patient and read by the psychologist, so he made his own, slightly larger set.
Last Suppers
Sixty Last Suppers, 116 x 393″, 1986
What’s better than one Last Supper? Sixty Last Suppers.
Sixty Last Suppers, detailSixty Last Suppers, in Milan“Camouflage” Last Supper, a monumental 9×35′, 1986
Is Warhol’s Camouflaged Last Supper a commentary on his camouflaged Catholicism? His own mysterious self as an artist? The war of art? An interplay with monochromatic forms of color and value?
Camo Last Supper, detail
After death, uninteresting
Warhol died in 1987, at the age of 58. I don’t typically post artist’s gravestones (maybe I should) but I stumbled across this and had to include it. Perhaps someone could explain to me: how the heck did someone like Warhol end up with such a boring gravestone?!?
I should title this post “The Least Macabre Paintings I Could Find by the Artist Nicola Samori.” I love his figurative works: the simplified compositions, the suggestions of movement and time, his paint application style, texture, articulation and decay – even his color palette, though admittedly it’s on the darker of the very dark Italian tastes. …
Here’s an idea for something to draw: throw your jacket on a chair. Now you have a still life, a portrait, and a landscape. *Quoted from Charity Baker’s “Museum Crawl” class featuring Cezanne’s show of drawings in NY
Day 12: George Washington The instructions were to finish an unfinished portrait of George Washington. If you’ve gone into instagram or padlet and searched for #30SAL, you have probably seen some of the fabulous contributions from artists like you. From out of the dozens of interesting artworks responding to this challenge, here are a few. …
One of Akira Kurosawa’s many gifts was staging scenes in ways that were bold, simple and visual. Here’s another short by Tony Zhou’s “Every Frame a Painting” series, with ideas for film that can be applied to your paintings. (3 minutes)
7 Warhol artworks you might not know about
Some artworks were mentioned at the recent WTF Art History Lecture about Andy Warhol (IT WAS EFF-ING FABULOUS) last Saturday: artworks that I hadn’t seen before. You may have seen the Campbell’s soup cans and Marilyn Monroe series countless times, but have you seen these?
Sunsets
Warhol was a big fan of Joseph Albers, and these Sunsets are clearly Albers’ color concepts on a stick. Look how they vibrate! The Sunset series was printed with 472 different color variations, and used only three screens.
Shadows
“…Conceived as one painting in multiple parts, with the final number of canvases being determined by the dimensions of an exhibition space, these 102 silkscreened canvas panels. Shadows were painted with a sponge mop, the streaks and trails it left adding gesture to the picture plane. Seven or eight different screens were used to create the series, as is evidenced in the slight shifts in scales of dark areas as well as the arbitrary presence of spots of light. The “shadows” alternate between positive and negative imprints as they march along the wall of the gallery. In focusing on the shadow to devise light—that is to say, sparks of color—Warhol returns to the quintessential problem of art: perception.” – Guggenheim exhibits
Diamond Dust Shadows
One year after Shadows, Warhol created Diamond Dust Shadows with glass or diamond dust. This series could be about abstract/minimalist aesthetic, existentialism, disco, sparkling religious iconography, something else, everything else, or nothing else.
Mao Wallpaper
Some guests have to abruptly leave these displays, from overstimulation and nausea.
Rorschach
Warhol misunderstood, and thought that Rorschach ink blots were to be made by the patient and read by the psychologist, so he made his own, slightly larger set.
Last Suppers
What’s better than one Last Supper? Sixty Last Suppers.
Is Warhol’s Camouflaged Last Supper a commentary on his camouflaged Catholicism? His own mysterious self as an artist? The war of art? An interplay with monochromatic forms of color and value?
After death, uninteresting
Warhol died in 1987, at the age of 58. I don’t typically post artist’s gravestones (maybe I should) but I stumbled across this and had to include it. Perhaps someone could explain to me: how the heck did someone like Warhol end up with such a boring gravestone?!?
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Jacket on a Chair
Here’s an idea for something to draw: throw your jacket on a chair. Now you have a still life, a portrait, and a landscape. *Quoted from Charity Baker’s “Museum Crawl” class featuring Cezanne’s show of drawings in NY
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Day 12: George Washington The instructions were to finish an unfinished portrait of George Washington. If you’ve gone into instagram or padlet and searched for #30SAL, you have probably seen some of the fabulous contributions from artists like you. From out of the dozens of interesting artworks responding to this challenge, here are a few. …
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One of Akira Kurosawa’s many gifts was staging scenes in ways that were bold, simple and visual. Here’s another short by Tony Zhou’s “Every Frame a Painting” series, with ideas for film that can be applied to your paintings. (3 minutes)