Andy Warhol

ANDY WORHOL The Dark Side It is rare for an artist to become a celebrity, but Andy Warhol experienced much more than his fifteen minutes of fame and became an icon of his generation. Warhol was involved in many artistic fields that included painting, filmmaking, publisher, record producer, and photography, but at the same time he was a businessman, social commentator and self-promoter. He was a major contributor to the Pop Art movement, a period …

…captivated Warhol’s mind due to the number of different works he produced on the subject. The “Electric Chair” series shows a side of Warhol not seen in his most popular works. Through these pieces he was able to successfully voice his opinion on capital punishment. Few people ever see what an execution chamber actually looks like, and with Warhol making this setting as dark as possible, he makes a very powerful and lasting statement