Luka's Arts In NYC

The Artwork:

Andy Warhol “Orange Disaster 5”:

The image is of the electric chair. I think he found the image and then by silk-screening it made it his own. He repeats the picture 15 times. This makes the picture almost seem vague, like a brick in a house. At first glance one doesn’t see each individual picture and sees the piece as a whole, but as you closer you see the image and subject matter. I think the title is meaning to show how sinister the image is. The image is sinister, with the orange making the electric chair seem even more eerie and creepy, and since the electric is by itself it shows the solitariness of one who has to suffer from this. It is also saying that this isn’t the only disaster. The image is one of five.

Robert Rauschenberg “Untitled”:

Subject Matter:

. Radio

. Advertisement

. Rocket

. Buildings

. Shady Characters

I think he found these images in mostly newspapers. They all seem very much about the current events of the world during that time. I also think he got a couple of them from magazines, like the Coca-Cola billboard advertisement. The meaning of this work, I feel, is that the current would is chaotic and that the only things in the world that can be distinguished from the chaos are the aspects of life that control the chaos such as the images of shady characters (politicians), advertisements, technology and corporations

Materials:

. Paint

. Paper

. Plastic Container

. Hand Dryer

Sarah Charlesworth ”Herald Tribune”:

The relationship between the white paper and the images is confusion. In a lot of the images the people are making faces of confusion or faces of someone who doesn’t fully understand a situation. The white pages add to the confusion because there is no explanation of the images, so the observer is forced to focus on the images by themselves. The artist took out the body of the text. The layout is almost like a linear timeline, as if the piece seems to be following a storyboard of sorts. There are 25 pages. What this tells me is that the piece is trying to tell a story without the words. It shows the piece has a chronological format, which seems to add order to the otherwise confusing and somewhat random pictures.