Disembodied from the dark background, the face appears mask-like and haunting. However, the fluorescent camouflage pattern has a concealing effect. The size of this work and the strong visual contrast between the face and the background clearly focus attention on the artist’s face.
#Andy warhol portraits series#
This is one of a series of self portraits the artist made in 1986 using a photograph of himself wearing a distinctive wig. These contradictions are evident in Self-portrait no. Experimental music and film were also important activities at The Factory.Īlthough Warhol was fascinated with celebrity, and became a celebrity himself, he remained a private and mysterious person. Warhol had many assistants and his studio became known as The Factory. Warhol liked the anonymity of silk screen printing, and the fact that it allowed him to mass-produce images –he often repeated the same image many times over. Many of Warhol’s early works were hand painted but from 1962 he started making silk-screen prints. Warhol’s iconic Pop art works include images of consumer goods such as Campbell’s soup cans and Coca-Cola bottles, and portraits of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe based on media photographs. Pop art took its inspiration from popular culture. The name Andy Warhol has become synonymous with Pop art, a style of art that emerged in Britain and America in the mid 1950s and culminated in the 1960s.
‘If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am.
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