Death and Disaster
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Death and Disaster is a series of artworks by Andy Warhol that explores themes of mortality, violence, and tragedy through repeated, often shocking mass-media imagery.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Death and Disaster canonical | 1 |
Statements (82)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art series
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body of work ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
confront viewers with mediated violence
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question desensitization to death in mass media ⓘ |
| artForm |
mixed media
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painting ⓘ screenprint ⓘ |
| basedOn |
magazine images
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newspaper images ⓘ press photographs ⓘ |
| colorPalette |
high-contrast color
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monochrome ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | Andy Warhol ⓘ |
| depicts |
car crashes
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civil rights protests ⓘ electric chairs ⓘ industrial accidents ⓘ mourning and grief ⓘ plane crashes ⓘ public executions ⓘ race riots ⓘ suicides ⓘ |
| genre | contemporary art ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Car Crash paintings
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Electric Chair paintings ⓘ Jackie paintings ⓘ Race Riot paintings ⓘ Suicide paintings ⓘ Tunafish Disaster paintings ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
American mass media
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car culture in the United States ⓘ tabloid journalism ⓘ |
| locationOfCreation | New York City ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
death
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disaster ⓘ mortality ⓘ tragedy ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| movement | Pop art ⓘ |
| notableWork |
129 Die in Jet
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5 Deaths ⓘ Ambulance Disaster ⓘ Electric Chair ⓘ
surface form:
Big Electric Chair
Black and White Disaster ⓘ Black and White Race Riot ⓘ Electric Chair ⓘ Green Car Crash (Burning Green Car I) ⓘ
surface form:
Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I)
Jackie (The Week That Was) ⓘ Lavender Disaster ⓘ Little Electric Chair ⓘ Mustard Race Riot ⓘ Orange Car Crash (Five Times) ⓘ
surface form:
Orange Car Crash (5 Deaths 11 Times in Orange)
Orange Disaster ⓘ Orange Disaster ⓘ
surface form:
Orange Disaster #5
Race Riot ⓘ Red Race Riot ⓘ Saturday Disaster ⓘ Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) ⓘ Little Electric Chair ⓘ
surface form:
Silver Electric Chair
Sixteen Jackies ⓘ Sixteen Jackies ⓘ
surface form:
Sixteen Jackies (Blue)
Sixteen Jackies ⓘ
surface form:
Sixteen Jackies (Green)
Sixteen Jackies ⓘ
surface form:
Sixteen Jackies (Red)
Sixteen Jackies ⓘ
surface form:
Sixteen Jackies (Reversal)
Suicide (Fallen Body) ⓘ Suicide (Jumping Man) ⓘ Tunafish Disaster ⓘ White Burning Car I ⓘ White Burning Car II ⓘ |
| partOf | Andy Warhol’s silkscreen paintings ⓘ |
| period |
early 1960s
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mid 1960s ⓘ |
| technique |
cropping and enlargement of photographs
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mechanical reproduction of images ⓘ serial repetition of images ⓘ |
| theme |
banality of evil
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consumer culture and death ⓘ media sensationalism ⓘ repetition of traumatic imagery ⓘ |
| uses |
mass media imagery
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photographic silkscreen printing ⓘ |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.