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Title
Cow
Wallpaper
,
detail
.
Creator
Warhol, Andy (American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker, 1928-1987)
Date
1966
Cultural Context
American
North American
Style/Period
Pop (fine arts styles)
Modern (styles and periods)
Theme
Prints (visual works)
Screen prints
Silkscreens (visual works)
Wallpapers
Wall coverings
Detail views
Parody
Mass production
Patterns (design elements)
Figurative art
Figures (representations)
Three-quarter views
Oblique views
Front views
Cows
Cattle
Bulls (animals)
Animals
Domestic animals
Livestock
Heads (animal or human components)
Heads (representations)
Horn (animal material)
Ears
Bridles
Subject
Prints
Screen prints
Wallpapers
Details
Commercialism
Patterns (Design elements)
Cows
Cattle
Bulls
Animals
Livestock
Heads (Anatomy)
Horns (Animal)
Ears
Bridles
Description
"
Warhol's
'wallpaper'
initially
decorated
a
room
at
Leo
Castelli's
New
York
gallery
in
April
,
1966
.
Another
room
was
devoted
to his
floating
Silver
Clouds
(helium-filled
silver
pillows).
"
(Caption
,
p.111)
; "
[Robert]
Rauschenberg's
early
1960s
silkscreen
paintings
appear
convoluted
alongside
the
colorful
,
emblematic
images
of
[Roy]
Lichtenstein
and
Warhol
.
Borrowing
the
compositional
clarity
of
contemporaneous
abstraction
, they
employed
single
images
,
ready
designed
from
pre-existing
commercial
sources
, in
enlarged
or
repeated
formats.
"
(Excerpt
,
pp.111
,
114)
; "
Through
aligning
himself
with
'female'
consumption
,
Warhol
came
close
to
[Marcel]
Duchamp
,
who
had
represented
himself
in
drag
on a
perfume
bottle
[Belle
Haleine
,
Eau
de
Voilette
,
1921]
, but
Warhol's
taste
was
more
flamboyantly
vulgar
,
especially
when
it
came
to
opposing
Abstract
Expressionism's
'virility'
. His
Cow
Wallpaper
, its
ungainly
bovine
profiles
appearing
incongruously
'rural'
alongside
his
urban
subjects
,
repudiated
a
whole
lineage
of
'bullish'
imagery
in
twentieth-century
art
ranging
from
[Pablo]
Picasso's
Guernica
to
[Robert]
Motherwell's
Elegies
. At the
same
time
, in
producing
'wallpaper'
-
the
very
incarnation
of the
'domestic'
and
'decorative'
-
he
parodied
the
broodings
of
Modernists
over
where
abstract
paintings
'ended'
compositionally
,
reveling
in the
'philistine'
perception
of
such
works
as
'wallpaper'
.
(Excerpt
,
p.115)
Material
Silkscreen ink on paper
Silkscreen ink
Ink
Paper (fiber product)
Measurements
111.8 x 78.2 cm
Technique
Screen printing
Printing (process)
Printmaking
Work Type
Silkscreens (visual works)
Prints
Screen prints
Wallpapers
Heads (representations)
Details
Source
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.111, fig.55)
Rights
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./DACS, 2000.
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
827-51.jpg
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