Fraction of 'Portraits of the Artists 17' by Andy Warhol
Year: 1967
Size: 20' x 20'
Medium: Screenprint on one hundred polystyrene boxes in ten colors.
Edition: 172/200
This work was made by Andy Warhol in 1967 with his typical repetition and Pop Art style. Made out of 10 silkscreen reproductions in polystyrene cubes, with the portraits of the 10 artists: Robert Morris, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Larry Poons, James Rosenquist , Frank Stella, Lee Bontecou, Donald Judd, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol himself. In 'Portraits of the Artists 17' each artist portrayed, becomes an icon worthy of endless reproduction, testifying to the impact that each of these artists had on the art of the 1960s.
This fraction of the piece is a fraction of the white portrait of Andy Warhol within the piece. Today an immediately recognizable name, and creator of the present work, Andy Warhol was one of the most influential figures in contemporary art. He took his experience in the field of commercial illustration as a starting point to make his leap into the art world, and with it, to fame. In the fifties, Abstract Expressionism had become an institution and it was Pop Art, with Andy Warhol at its head, the artistic movement that opposed this personal and elitist form of creation in favor of art with mundane and impersonal themes that were in tune with the contemporary world: saturated with images, products, and fleeting fame. Andy Warhol became a celebrity and made a great work of art of himself and his fame.
Publications:
Tanglewood Press Inc., New York, pub.
Key Facts: This piece is also collected by MOMA, New York (https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78143)
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