Electric Chair by Andy Warhol

Artist Andy Warhol (1928‑1987)

Title Electric Chair

Date1964

MediumScreenprint and acrylic paint on canvas

Dimensionssupport: 562 x 711 mm

Andy Warhol  was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explored the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement.  After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist. The dreadful silence glows in the gloom of Andy Warhol's Electric, as if describing the future for whoever has been slaughtered in that seat. The restraints lie slack on the ground and the darkness resembles a shadowy existences  that of a realm lack life and yet filled with  death. . The silkscreen print takes the original photograph to the verge of dissolution with its blurry overlays, so that one can hardly grasp what is going on.. Andy Warhol stated, "Everything I do is connected with death,", and it seems true of his silkscreen images This piece of work is fearful, the chair is an eerie remembrance of those who have passed away in that very seat, the innocent and the damned alike. The Electric Chair by Andy Warhol is not only an eerie work of art but it is also a reminder of mankind's dark past, before there was equal rights and fair judgments there was the electric chair, which was used to fry the innocent and damned alike, with a vengeance.