The drawings were made to elaborate the details.Įntertainment & Arts Review: Netflix’s ‘The Andy Warhol Diaries’ is a love story, not an art story - and that’s why it works The canvas might start by being painted in a solid acrylic color, or sometimes multiple hues applied in various shapes, with the screen image printed over that. A helpful short film clip in the exhibition shows him printing an Elvis Presley painting with the help of Gerard Malanga, the studio assistant who did much of the labor on Warhol’s early work. An insurmountable dissonance, which takes some explaining, undermines them.Īs he did with virtually all of his paintings after the classic 1962 pictures of Marilyn Monroe became a sensation, Warhol used standard commercial photographs to make the basic silkscreen images that he printed on canvas.
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They look like ordinary posters for a teenager’s bedroom. Warhol I’ve got a better grip on, and these silkscreen paintings are pretty much a flop. If given a choice between the car and a painting, I’d take the car in a heartbeat. Hanging adjacent are Warhol’s perfectly pretty, decidedly snoozy portraits of it.
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End of deep comprehension.īut I also know this: There’s a drop-dead gorgeous 1954 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing coupe, a silver model with a royal blue leather interior and matching leather suitcase strapped into the rear deck, where it can be covetously ogled through the back window. I know only one thing about them for certain, and that is that my engineer grandfather designed a magneto for the Ford Model A, which replaced the hugely successful Model T in 1928. The vehicles, on the other hand, range from fascinating to extraordinary.Īnd I say that knowing that cars are not my area of expertise. As with much of what Warhol painted in the late 1970s and 1980s, after the nearly faultless run of superlative, art-history-changing works he produced between about 19, the Mercedes paintings are banal. (The show was co-organized by the Petersen and Mercedes-Benz curator Renate Wiehager.) The art is paired with five of the eight models of vehicle depicted in the paintings.
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Twenty-seven of the 36 completed silkscreen paintings (80 were planned) and all 13 pencil drawings are currently on display at the Petersen Automotive Museum on Wilshire Boulevard, where “Andy Warhol: Cars - Works from the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection” has just opened in the first-floor gallery.