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Cantaloupes I (F & S. II 201)
"The rainbow palette in Space Fruit evokes a playful, almost child-like joy."
Cantaloupes I is part of Andy Warhol’s Space Fruit: Still Lifes series, created in 1979.
The screenprint showcases Warhol’s deliberate and thoughtful use of colour to breathe life into his images. In Cantaloupes, Warhol contrasts the vibrant orange of the fruit—a far more intense shade than in reality—against a blue background. These complementary colours, positioned on opposite sides of the colour wheel, infuse the image with remarkable brightness. If colour is seen as the ultimate conduit for emotion in art, with each hue eliciting a distinct feeling, Warhol masters this approach. His heavily saturated black-and-white portraits of Marilyn Monroe convey a sense of morbidity and darkness, while the rainbow palette in Space Fruit evokes a playful, almost child-like joy.
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