Chapter 1
From commercial illustrator to pop art pioneer
Chapter 2
Inside the Silver Factory
Chapter 3
The art of mass production
Chapter 4
The birth of the modern art celebrity
YOUR GOAL
Master of Andy Warhol and the pop art revolution
Ch 3 · The art of mass production
choko Discover how Andy Warhol's repeated screenprints of the Sing Sing electric chair challenge our numbness to tragedy and capital punishment.
andy The art of mass production
Andy Warhol knew the flow / Mass production made art glow / From The Factory, watch it grow / Everyday icons, put on a show.
andy Alongside consumer goods, Warhol created the 'Death and Disaster' series to show how the media desensitizes us to tragedy.
andy Warhol treated his studio like a manufacturing plant, where assistants helped produce hundreds of artworks.
Fun Fact
Warhol's pop art: Poet Gerard Malanga spent years at Andy Warhol's Silver Factory, working as the chief screenprinting assistant who helped co-create his famous 1960s prints.
Glossary
silkscreen (noun)
A printmaking technique in which ink is pressed through a stenciled screen to create a design. Andy Warhol adopted this technique in 1962 to rapidly reproduce images of Campbell's soup cans.
A printmaking technique in which ink is pressed through a stenciled screen to create a design. Andy Warhol adopted this technique in 1962 to rapidly reproduce images of Campbell's soup cans.
Quiz
Who was Andy Warhol's primary studio assistant who helped him print his classic silkscreens throughout the 1960s?
Fun Fact
Art machine: Warhol once said, 'I want to be a machine,' reflecting his desire to make art as mechanically and impersonally as possible.
Quiz
Which of these shocking subjects appeared in Andy Warhol's 'Death and Disaster' series?
Quiz
What dark theme did Andy Warhol explore in his famous 'Death and Disaster' print series?
Quiz
Which printing technique did Andy Warhol adopt in 1962 to easily mass-produce photographic images on canvas?