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Friday 28 June 2013

Thoughts on Andy Warhol

Reading a book on the religious aspect of Warhol's paintings by Jane Dillenberger .Warhol extracted mass media images and rendered them as art through a process  of repetitive mass production, some critics critiqued pop art as being shallow with nothing to say, but I believe this misses the point.Warhol appropriates these images in the manner of Duchamp's ready mades they are not changed in form or content, but in their perception by isolation and space from a functional environment.If a note is taken out of a piece of music and isolated or repeat over and over again its sound is not altered but our perception of it changes radically.