laurainsf

I do enjoy a good bit of honesty.

As long as we're going for Pop Art (including the idea to sell what the artist is doing as part of the piece) I say let's do it Japanese-style, with imagination and guts. Ever see his giant mushroom installations?

Yes, we all know Warhol's portraits (by his admission his main source of income). But what about the Electric Chair series?
"The Electric chair series of prints from 1971 recycled imagery already seen in Warhol's painting. Both canvases and prints were derived from a photograph of the electric chair in Sing Sing Penitentiary in Ossining, New York, where the convicted Soviet spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg had been executed on 13 January 1953 at the height of the Cold War. This photograph of the electric chair was released by the press service Wide World Photo on the day of the execution.

For the prints, the artist cropped the photograph, honing in on the empty chair. Often using pastel decorator colours, applied in a painterly manner, the contrast between the deathly subject and the softened almost delicate technique underscores the horror of the execution chamber."

Kollwits woodcut self portrait from 1923. Incredibly moving.