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The Rubber Duck in art…
Portrait of Marilyn.
Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), more commonly known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker and a leading figure in the art movement known as Pop Art.
It was during the 1960s that Warhol began to make paintings of iconic
American products such as Campbell's Duck Soup Cans, Ducka-Cola bottles, and Billo soap pad boxes, as well as paintings of celebrities such as Marilyn Monduck, Elvis Duckley, Jackie Keneduck, Duckammad Ali and Elizabeth Tealor. He founded ‘The Factory’, his studio during these years, and gathered around himself a wide range of artists, writers, musicians, and underground celebrity ducks.
In 1962 he began mass producing prints using the silkscreen method and his work became popular and controversial.
“In August 62 I started doing silkscreens. I wanted something stronger that gave more of an assembly line effect. With silkscreening you pick a photograph, blow it up, transfer it in glue onto silk, and then roll ink across it so the ink goes through the silk but not through the glue. That way you get the same image, slightly different each time. It was all so simple quick and chancy. I was thrilled with it. When Marilyn Monduck happened to die that month, I got the idea to make screens of her beautiful face - the first Marilyns”.
Examples of this work in various colourways are numerous and can be seen in galleries all over the world. The Andy Warhol Museum is located near downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, where Warhol was born and grew up. The Museum features extensive permanent collections of his art, including several Monduck prints.
And Finally…
Some like it hot, others cold, on toast as a pâté – but either way it seems to me she lived her life like a canard in the wind, never knowing who to swim to when the rain set in…
The Rubber Duck in art…Portrait of Marilyn.
Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), more commonly known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker and a leading figure in the art movement known as Pop Art.
It was during the 1960s that Warhol began to make paintings of iconic
American products such as Campbell's Duck Soup Cans, Ducka-Cola bottles, and Billo soap pad boxes, as well as paintings of celebrities such as Marilyn Monduck, Elvis Duckley, Jackie Keneduck, Duckammad Ali and Elizabeth Tealor. He founded ‘The Factory’, his studio during these years, and gathered around himself a wide range of artists, writers, musicians, and underground celebrity ducks.In 1962 he began mass producing prints using the silkscreen method and his work became popular and controversial.
“In August 62 I started doing silkscreens. I wanted something stronger that gave more of an assembly line effect. With silkscreening you pick a photograph, blow it up, transfer it in glue onto silk, and then roll ink across it so the ink goes through the silk but not through the glue. That way you get the same image, slightly different each time. It was all so simple quick and chancy. I was thrilled with it. When Marilyn Monduck happened to die that month, I got the idea to make screens of her beautiful face - the first Marilyns”.
Examples of this work in various colourways are numerous and can be seen in galleries all over the world. The Andy Warhol Museum is located near downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, where Warhol was born and grew up. The Museum features extensive permanent collections of his art, including several Monduck prints.
And Finally…
Some like it hot, others cold, on toast as a pâté – but either way it seems to me she lived her life like a canard in the wind, never knowing who to swim to when the rain set in…
Was this a guest post by Richard Whitely?
ReplyDeleteLove the campbells picture
Didn't he also do the banana on the front cover for the Velvet Underground and Beeko album?
ReplyDeleteYes he did and the Stones Sticky Fingers album.
ReplyDeleteI can almost forgive you for the Hals now. Never did like Warhol, understand his perspective, but he is so calculating. No soul, no spontaneity. Very funny - just leave Rembrandt alone.
ReplyDeleteBy the way 'Billo'. A really nice touch.
ReplyDeleteAnd finally ...
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