Andy Warhol Electric Chair
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Andy warhol electric chair. Acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen. It was created on a medium sized canvas and was part of warhols renowned death and disasters series that the artist started in 1962. 22 x 28 in 559 x 711 cm. Gave me the idea to start the death and disaster series.
Andy warhol big electric chair 1967 68 acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen the eli and edythe l. The electric chair was originally a form of capital punishment created to replace hanging. Electric chair is part of warhols substantial death and disaster series that the artist started in 1962 early examples of which depicted car crashes and suicides as illustrated in newspaper images see for instance race riot 1963 and ambulance disaster 1963. From martini studio darte andy warhol electric chair 1971 multiple screen printing on paper 90 1215 cm.
Located innew york ny created in 1971 andy warhols electric chair is a screenprint in colors on wove paper. From the broad collection. Andy warhols famous imagery of the electric chair was first created in 1964 as a silkscreen painting. Over the next decade he repeatedly returned to the subject reflecting the political controversy surrounding the death penalty in america in the 1960s.
Death by electrocution was a controversial subject in new york city where the artist lived and worked especially after the last two executions at sing sing correctional facility in 1963. The artist noted that it was henry geldzahler a curator at the metropolitan museum of art new york who. This piece encapsulates the full thrust of the artists enigmatic approach to art. Yet electric chair with its eponymous chair printed once on each of ten separate sheets of paper belies this statement.
Andy warhol first used the image of the electric chair in his death and disaster series a loose group of works that occupied him from 196265. The work speaks to the constant reiteration of tragedy in the media and becomes perhaps an attempt to exorcise this image of death through repetition.
