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Andy Warhol's self portraits

Self portraits by Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol was an American artist who is famous for his pictures of Campbell Soup cans and portraits of celebrities. Warhol himself became a celebrity, in part because of his unusual personality and sense of style.
Find out more about Andy Warhol:
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/who-is/who-andy-warhol

Andy Warhol made films, digital artwork, installations, paintings and sculptures, but he was particularly famous for his screen prints.
Silkscreen printing where the ink is passed through a mesh of silkscreen and the same image is imprinted multiple times on the canvas. Here the silkscreen acts like a stencil.

Artists have been using screen printing techniques since early in recorded history; The first recorded mention of screen printing dates back as early as 960 AD during the Song Dynasty in China. 

Printmaking appealed to Warhol as it allowed him to repeat a basic image and create endless variations of it by using different colours or sometimes adding paint to the printed surface.

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
Andy Warhol


Watch Wahol creating a screen print.
https://www.sfmoma.org/watch/andy-warhol-makes-a-silkscreen

 

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