Death and Disaster (Andy Warhol)
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| :"The "Death and Disaster" paintings (such as "Red Car Crash", "Purple Jumping Man"[http://www.masdearte.com/imagenes/fotos/suicidePurplejumpingman63ok.jpg], "Orange Disaster"[http://academics.smcvt.edu/gblasdel/art/A.%20Warhol,%20Oran.%20Disaster.jpg] transform [[personal]] [[tragedies]] into [[public]] [[spectacle]]s, and signal [[visual culture|the use of images]] of [[disaster]] in the then evolving [[mass media]]." --S. Stein | :"The "Death and Disaster" paintings (such as "Red Car Crash", "Purple Jumping Man"[http://www.masdearte.com/imagenes/fotos/suicidePurplejumpingman63ok.jpg], "Orange Disaster"[http://academics.smcvt.edu/gblasdel/art/A.%20Warhol,%20Oran.%20Disaster.jpg] transform [[personal]] [[tragedies]] into [[public]] [[spectacle]]s, and signal [[visual culture|the use of images]] of [[disaster]] in the then evolving [[mass media]]." --S. Stein | ||
| - | [[Electric chair 1967]], synthetic polymer paint screenprinted onto canvas | + | The '[[Death and Disaster]]' series is a loose group of works by [[Andy Warhol]] that produced between [[1962]] and [[1965]]. Warhol noted in ''[[Popism]]'' that it was [[Henry Geldzahler]], then curator of [[Twentieth Century Art]] at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York]]: |
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| - | The image of the electric chair was first used by Warhol in 1964 in the '[[Death and Disaster]]' series, a loose group of works that occupied the artist from [[1962]] to [[1965]]. Warhol noted in ''[[Popism]]'' that it was [[Henry Geldzahler]], then curator of [[Twentieth Century Art]] at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York]]: | + | |
| :"who gave me the idea to start the Death and Disaster series. We were both having lunch one day in the summer [of 1962] … and he laid the Daily News out on the table. The headline was '129 die in jet', and that's what started me on the death series - the Car Crashes, the Disasters, the Electric Chairs…" | :"who gave me the idea to start the Death and Disaster series. We were both having lunch one day in the summer [of 1962] … and he laid the Daily News out on the table. The headline was '129 die in jet', and that's what started me on the death series - the Car Crashes, the Disasters, the Electric Chairs…" | ||
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| - | The image of the chair - the [[electric chair]] at [[Sing-Sing Gaol]], New York - was repeated as multiple images in the first series. In 1967, in preparation for his retrospective at the [[Moderna Museet]], Stockholm, the following year, Warhol, re-used the image for a series of fourteen paintings in different colour combinations. Here only a single image of the chair is used. | ||
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- "The "Death and Disaster" paintings (such as "Red Car Crash", "Purple Jumping Man"[1], "Orange Disaster"[2] transform personal tragedies into public spectacles, and signal the use of images of disaster in the then evolving mass media." --S. Stein
The 'Death and Disaster' series is a loose group of works by Andy Warhol that produced between 1962 and 1965. Warhol noted in Popism that it was Henry Geldzahler, then curator of Twentieth Century Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
- "who gave me the idea to start the Death and Disaster series. We were both having lunch one day in the summer [of 1962] … and he laid the Daily News out on the table. The headline was '129 die in jet', and that's what started me on the death series - the Car Crashes, the Disasters, the Electric Chairs…"
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