Andy Warhol reveals himself as the most eccentric of the already eccentric pop artists. However, some of his works are not so prominent to common knowledge. This Oxidation Painting, which remounts to 1978, is a relevant case of his eccentricity, work that demonstrates its so high insaneness.
In this mural, it stands out the representation of abstract characters, painted with the colors green and brown, in a predominant yellow and dark background. However, the boards related to Oxidation painting have an unusual origin: the physiological. In order to cause the oxidation of the metal covering a canvas, Andy Warhol invited some friends to expel urine to the canvas, causing the formation of mineral salts, with the reaction between the uric acid and the copper, the only considerable paint used to these works. Then, to contribute to an higher eccentricity, Warhol elaborated an hypothetic table which related the using of a variety of metallic background paints and the variation of the maker’s fluid and food intake.
This is a brief history of the beginning of the resurgence of the abstract paintings in the pop art, from the Abstract Expressionism of the 1940’s, by Warhol and also a brief relation between art and science, with a new possible controversial technique of painting.
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Andy Warhol's Oxidation Painting (1978)
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May 28, 2013 at 2:10 PM
Mark - B+. An original choice to commeent on. There some language and sentence structure mistakes that we need to analyse tomorrow in class, though. Well done!