Andy Warhol – Repetition

I was positively inspired by Warhol’s technique of repetition, this appears in the artists most famous pieces such as the Marilyn Monroe screen print. This duplication creates a narrative and an exciting piece of art to look at. As I have shown below he uses this technique in many of his early pieces therefore making them extremely recognisable.

“Warhol was eager to speed up the process of replicating his images, so in 1962 he adopted the commercial production technique of screen printing. He begun to use photographs from newspapers and magazines, often depicting serious or traumatic scenes. Screen printing meant he could reproduce photographs onto canvas multiple times. While the printing process removed the artist’s hand, Warhol often allowed his screen to be over and under inked, this created effects that disrupted the images.” – Kirsteen McSwein, Tate Modern.

Warhol continues this technique into some of his later work. He developed the idea to use in his photography work as seen in the Grace Jones image. There is a general theme to his work where he juxtaposes colours creating a true ‘Pop Art’ outcome. This makes for an extremely eye catching design with a relatively simple image.

I would like to explore this technique within my creative research, experimenting with over and under saturated repeated images just as Warhol created.