Andy Warhol Flash (F & S. II 36) For Sale

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    Andy Warhol Flash (F & S II.36)

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    Catalogue Title Flash﹣November 22, 1963 (FS II.36)
    Year 1968
    Size 21″ x 21″ 53,3 x 53,3 cm
    Medium Portfolio of eleven screenprints, colophon, and Teletype text on paper. The prints, wrapped with the screenprint cover, are in a plexiglass box.
    Edition Edition of 200, 26 numbered in Roman numerals; 10 lettered A-J have three additional screenprints, each of which is a composite of images from II.33 and II.38. (See II.43A-43C.) Each print, housed in a folder with a page of Teletype text, is signed in ball-point pen on verso; the colophon is signed and numbered in ball-point pen.
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  • Flash (F & S II.36)

    “When President Kennedy was shot that Fall, I heard the news over the radio while I was alone painting in my studio…I don’t think I missed a stroke. I wanted to know what was going on out there, but that was the extent of my reaction” Andy Warhol

    This is a screenprint from Andy Warhol’s Flash portfolio, published in 1968. Within this portfolio, Warhol explores the media frenzy within the aftermath of President JFK’s assassination. The portfolio is made up of eleven screenprints, ranging from images of JFK himself, Jackie Kennedy, to news clippings of the tragedy. The title of the series is a reference to ‘news-flash’, and the constant flashing of violent images within the media, creating a nation that slowly becomes desensitised to such tragedy. It is exactly this spectacle of death and catastrophe that Warhol aims to critique through this series.

    This print depicts an image of Lee Harvey Oswald- the man who assassinated President Kennedy. However, Warhol transforms a man who was at one point the most hated man in America, into a Pop Art symbol. Using his innovative screen printing technique, Warhol paints Oswald in a gaudy pink against a bright red background. The use of screen printing allows Warhol to flatten the image, making Oswald hardly discernible from the background of the print. Screen printing is a method that allows for duplication and wide circulation, similar to that of a newspaper. Therefore, with his flash portfolio, Warhol pushes the boundaries between what constitutes as ‘high’ art and ‘low’ art, through his appropriated of media sources.

    Throughout the 1960s, Warhol explored darker themes within his Death and Disaster series. Continuing from his depictions of consumer culture and celebrity, Warhol was fascinated by America’s obsession with disaster, avidly consuming it within the media in the way celebrity gossip is consumed, or a Campbell’s soup. The American taste for consumption of violence and catastrophe provokes the question: does death and violence sell as well as a can of Campbell’s soup?

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