ID 2242 Certification Questions and CORRECT Answers

Andy Warhol, Brillo pad box series, 1960 Many different sizes (made them furniture sized) Red white and blue, adds the blue for patriotism Giant, Fast, New propaganda Used silk screening process (stenciling on mesh in process called sizing) Silkscreen images were placed on boxes, there is no original, all copies Walter Benjamin: "Age of mechanical reproduction" "Copies of copies of copies" " no creative impulse with use of stencils" "Does this decrease value" (Maybe Warhol didn't even make it" Warhol tried freehand but thought it was easier to use stencils, less personal - Andy Warhol, Campbell's soup can series, 1960s Silkscreen process Massively reproduced the image (commodification) Multiples are "stock" Art market is like shopping -