At the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento,
California, while I was home, I was fortunate to see The exhibition that is
still on show Titled Andy Warhol: Portraits. It consisted of 168 drawings,
fashion sketches, painting, photo booth strips, polaroid’s, personal memorabilia
and portrait memorabilia. It showcased all of his portrait he did at the time,
the people included were, Truman Capote, Playwright Tennessee Williams, Yves Saint Laure, artists Keith Haring, Robert
Mapplethorpe, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and actors Judy Garland, Jane Fonda,
and Sylvester Stallone, and many more. When first walking not the exhibition
there is a make shift version of his Studio the Factory and people can use
stencils to make artworks at an art and crafts table. There is also a place
where the exhibit goers can make their own screen test, that are based on Warhol’s
screen tests of the same magnitude. Then the viewers walk into a gallery of his
works which included drawings when he was a boy. The portraits were the most
fascinating to me.
The one that I liked were
Keith Haring and Jean Dubose, Tennessee Williams, I also enjoyed his drawing
that he did when he was younger one included him drawing an exact advertisement
from the cosmetic company Maybelline. Another one that stood out was the one of
Mao Zedong. The last was one that seemed to be painted with black light paint
that was of a Jesus figure. The reason I liked these examples was because of
the use of color and how there were different for that time period, The Keith
Haring was interesting because the one the colors had switch on each one, there
was a set of two. The Tennessee Williams
one seemed in the line work to have a sense of ombre, including yellows,
oranges and reds, with his face being in black and white on front of a turquoise
background
It was amazing that Warhol
was able to use that aspect of art to create these amazing works.
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