Project 2

The Andy Warhol Museum

Jon Gould at the Beach. 1986
Gelatin silver prints sewn with thread  

Flowers. 1964
Offset lithograph 

These artworks made a lasting impression on me. I love both of their compositions, especially the gelatin silver prints. The idea to take a single image and sew multiple different exposures together is a great idea. It shows your process and gives the photo a greater presence rather than just one print.

Screen Test: Edie Sedgwick

Folding Screens. 1950's
Tempera on cardboard and wooden screen

I find Warhol's relationship with Edie Sedgwick interesting. He made her "The Girl of the Year" after she starred in his short films during the early 1960's until their relationship imploded a few years later. The rise and fall of Edie was quite tragic.

I also love the window displays Warhol made for Tiffany's in 1950's. As a graphic designer, I always find this blurred line between art and advertising fascinating.

Exhibition based on his Silver Clouds. 1966
Metalized polyester film with helium

Skulls. 1976
Acrylic paint and silkscreen


I would love to find more information on these two artworks. I know that Warhol's original Silver Clouds exhibition at Leo Castelli's gallery was intended to be his retirement from painting. I would like to know who recreated this in the museum.

I would also like to know if his repeated use of the skull had any relation to Warhol's shooting.

Video Response 

I found it interesting how the Ancient Greeks were considered the first civilization capable of realism. However, they used exaggeration to go even further once they mastered capturing realistic bodies. Kritios Boy was an early sculpture captured in contrapposto. This relaxed, naturalistic pose of the human body moved away from the previously rigid and stiff poses of the Archaic style. As it turns out, that sculpture was perhaps too realistic and borderline boring as a work of art. 

The modern world is dominated by unrealistic depictions of the body due to our culture and the primeval instinct to exaggerate certain body features. This instinct is believed to be hardwired into our brains. Humans will continue to exaggerate features to make the artwork more interesting and desirable as our ancestors did with the Venus of Willendorf and Bronzes of Riace.