Abstract painting of blue flowers against green grass
Andy Warhol
b. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1928–1987
Flowers
1964
Acrylic and photoscreenprint on canvas
81 3/4 × 81 3/4 in. (207.6 × 207.6 cm)
The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest, 1981 (86.5673)
© 2021 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Cathy Carver


In the 1960s, Pop artists such as Andy Warhol—who was an avid collector of Duchamp’s work—created works based on images appropriated from popular culture, elevating the banal to the realm of art. In Flowers, Warhol appropriated a photograph of hibiscus flowers from the June 1964 issue of Modern Photography magazine. Warhol transformed the photograph by cropping and enlarging the image before silkscreening it onto canvas to create a large-scale work that suggests painting but is in fact the result of a printing process that allowed him to create countless variations on the same composition.


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