Death and Disaster (Andy Warhol)
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- | + | The '[[Death and Disaster]]' series is a loose group of works by [[Andy Warhol]] that produced between [[1962]] and [[1965]]. The series include "Red Car Crash", "[[Purple Jumping Man]]"[http://www.masdearte.com/imagenes/fotos/suicidePurplejumpingman63ok.jpg] and "Orange Disaster"[http://academics.smcvt.edu/gblasdel/art/A.%20Warhol,%20Oran.%20Disaster.jpg]. The paintings transform personal [[tragedies]] into public [[spectacle]]s, and signal the use of images of [[disaster]] in the then evolving [[mass media]]. | |
- | The '[[Death and Disaster]]' series is a loose group of works by [[Andy Warhol]] that produced between [[1962]] and [[1965]]. The series include "Red Car Crash", "[[Purple Jumping Man]]"[http://www.masdearte.com/imagenes/fotos/suicidePurplejumpingman63ok.jpg] and "Orange Disaster"[http://academics.smcvt.edu/gblasdel/art/A.%20Warhol,%20Oran.%20Disaster.jpg]. The paintings transform personal [[tragedies]] into public [[spectacle]]s, and signal [[visual culture|the use of images]] of [[disaster]] in the then evolving [[mass media]]. | + | |
Warhol noted in ''[[Popism]]'' that it was [[Henry Geldzahler]], then curator of [[Twentieth Century Art]] at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York]]: | 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 'Death and Disaster' series is a loose group of works by Andy Warhol that produced between 1962 and 1965. The series include "Red Car Crash", "Purple Jumping Man"[1] and "Orange Disaster"[2]. The paintings transform personal tragedies into public spectacles, and signal the use of images of disaster in the then evolving mass media.
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…"
Electric chair screenprints
Warhol began making electric chair screenprints in 1963, the same year as the two final executions in New York State. Over the next decade, he repeatedly returned to the subject, reflecting the political controversy surrounding the death penalty in America. The photograph on which he based his screenprints was of the chair in Sing Sing Penitentiary. It was released by the World Wide Photo press service in 1953 in conjunction with the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
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