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ANDY WARHOL | Gun, 1981-1982 | acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
Sold for $7,026,500 at the Contemporary Art Evening Sale, 10 May 2012, New York. [Video]
Jordan Crandall: You don’t like guns, do you?
Andy Warhol: Yes, I think they’re really kind of nice.
(From Splash No. 6, 1986, excerpted in I’ll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews, Edited by Kenneth Goldsmith, New York, 2004, p. 373).
After Andy Warhol’s assassination attempt in 1968 by Valerie Solanas, much of the violent imagery that had occupied his work of the 1960s—electric chairs, traffic accidents, nuclear explosions—vanished from his new pictures. Instead, during much of the 1970s, both famous and unfamous faces became a prominent trope. Warhol also began to incorporate different series into his silkscreens, including the infamous oxidation paintings and the “shadow” paintings of the late 1970s. Yet as the injuries from 1968 exerted their relentless and painful influence upon Warhol’s life and work, he returned in 1981 and 1982 to the subjects that he had avoided for more than a decade. 1982 saw showings on opposite sides of the Atlantic for Warhol’s Guns, Knives, and Dollar Signs, some of the most ominous and captivating work of his entire career. Gun, 1981-1982, exhibits Warhol’s full-circle return to the events that shook him to his mortal core in 1968, as we observe upon his canvas the exact style of pistol that almost claimed his life two decades before his death.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m411roCguk1qizk91o1_500.jpg)
ANDY WARHOL | Gun, 1981-1982 | acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
Sold for $7,026,500 at the Contemporary Art Evening Sale, 10 May 2012, New York. [Video]
Jordan Crandall: You don’t like guns, do you?
Andy Warhol: Yes, I think they’re really kind of nice.
(From Splash No. 6, 1986, excerpted in I’ll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews, Edited by Kenneth Goldsmith, New York, 2004, p. 373).
After Andy Warhol’s assassination attempt in 1968 by Valerie Solanas, much of the violent imagery that had occupied his work of the 1960s—electric chairs, traffic accidents, nuclear explosions—vanished from his new pictures. Instead, during much of the 1970s, both famous and unfamous faces became a prominent trope. Warhol also began to incorporate different series into his silkscreens, including the infamous oxidation paintings and the “shadow” paintings of the late 1970s. Yet as the injuries from 1968 exerted their relentless and painful influence upon Warhol’s life and work, he returned in 1981 and 1982 to the subjects that he had avoided for more than a decade. 1982 saw showings on opposite sides of the Atlantic for Warhol’s Guns, Knives, and Dollar Signs, some of the most ominous and captivating work of his entire career. Gun, 1981-1982, exhibits Warhol’s full-circle return to the events that shook him to his mortal core in 1968, as we observe upon his canvas the exact style of pistol that almost claimed his life two decades before his death.
Looking unto Jesus, the author & finisher of our faith
It’s 12.30am. Past my bedtime on a normal school day. The melatonin in my body will wake me up at 7am. I am having a slight headache. My thoracic spinous area is aching. I survived 5 hours of lecture today. Collected a shirt today. Size too small and picture proportions not quite right.
My eyes feel tired.
Nonetheless, my brain is still all fueled up & I can’t stop thinking. I am thinking about how awesome Woodlands library is because they have escalators and countless plugs. I am thinking about how we young people have become so disrespectful, ignorant, & selfish. Towards our families, towards the elderly waiting for a seat in the train(mind you, the older & older than older people really do look out for each other… Jumping out of their seats to let others sit), towards our friends.
Yep, I am one of them.
Let’s ask God to help us learn how to live for others? :) Okay perhaps I shall not speak for everyone…
I shall ask God to help me learn how to live for others. :)
I know this is very random but —— I feel v v glad and touched that God made Himself known to me. Nothing can compare to His love. Sometimes I don’t understand. But somehow, I just feel & believe.
I love this meme! so cute!! :D
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On the contrary, I’m not a diet. & I’m going to eat one of these tomorrow :) Or some of these :) :)
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I’m half posting this, because of Nate Archibald. Haha
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