Big Electric Chair 1967 - 1968

Andy Warhol made 'Big Electric Chair' with silkscreen, repeating an image of an electric chair to make us think about death, media, and repetition. It's got these blocks of blue, green, and pink. The colors are almost sickly sweet, like candy, but the image is super grim, so it creates a kind of tension. You can see the way Warhol layered the colors slightly off-register, creating this almost blurry, ghost-like effect. He wasn't trying to be perfect, but he was more interested in the feeling and the message. Warhol made a lot of these prints using images from newspapers and TV. He took these images out of their original context and blew them up, repeating them until they became these kind of iconic, flattened-out things. I wonder what it was like for him to sift through these images, choosing which ones to immortalize in his art?