Andy Warhol Flowers (F & S II.645 For Sale

This screenprint is one of ten variations from Andy Warhol’s Flower Portfolio, created in 1970 for his flowers portfolio. “I always notice flowers,” he said in his 1988 book, Andy Warhol’s Party Book. Warhol took one of the most quintessential subjects of art history – the humble flower – and transformed it into a pop art icon. Created within the ‘flower-power’ culture of parts of America in the 1960s and 1970s, Warhol is showing he is always aware of what is culturally significant to represent the America of his day, even if the inspiration is quite literally under his feet.

Around the time of creating this flowers portfolio, Warhol’s subject matter varied drastically. He had been exploring his ongoing Death and Disaster series, exploring mass printed images of death and violence. His subsequent portfolio included Electric Chairs (1971), a much more troubling portfolio exploring ideas of death. Previous to this, Warhol had created his iconic and quintessential soup can portfolio, choosing subject matter that had never been used before, whereas here he returns to a more traditional subject matter. However, it would not be a true Warhol portfolio without the artist putting his own Pop Art spin on the images. By appropriating a universal symbol of peace and natural beauty, Warhol creates a representational and artificial idea of nature. However, it could be argued that there is a darker meaning behind the portfolio, keeping in line with his ongoing Death and Disaster series. One of the petals is painted red, and stands out against the dark purple background like a blot of blood on paper. As this series was created in the aftermath of president JFK’s assassination, some believe the flowers echo the nation’s loss of innocence after the shooting. As is traditional in art history, the white flowers likely represent purity, provoking feelings of the fleeting nature of life, like the fleeting blossom of a flower.

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