Cultural Activity 3

     The last cultural activity I went to was the showing of Andy Warhol on campus.  There were a few images I enjoyed more than others, but I really did enjoy the majority of them. They were unique and colorful, which can be quite refreshing when all the photos I have taken have been black and white.  The “Electric Chair” was acid yellow and done on a silk screen.  It was very grainy and almost painful to look at, which is what I think Warhol was trying to do.  The electric chair is a brutal, inhumane, and painful object, much as was the coloring and texture of the picture.  He also did a ton of prints of people, especially their faces.  He did ones of them with lots of colors and ones of them that were very pale and straightforward.  Every picture provoked a different reaction.  All of his pictures, however, were very good at capturing the eyes of the model, they were all so expressive of the model’s character.  I found it comical how his subjects ranged, many of them being ordinary people or things: Barbie dolls, turtles, faces.   Each had an explosive color o texture added to it like nothing I’ve ever seen before.  The prints “Mao 1-10” were really fun to look at.  He took a photo of this extremely powerful Chinese communistic leader and made him very silly and almost ordinary. Warhol manipulated his face by use of color and texture so the audience didn’t see him as the important, intimidating figure he was, but more of just another one of Warhol’s models.  Finally, the “Mick Jagger” screen prints were also quite amusing.  Warhol also played with these pictures, making them confusing, chaotic, and almost druggy prints.  They perfectly captured the essence of subject.  Overall, I really enjoyed these photos; Warhol continues to add a new level of visual pleasure to art.