Flowers
(hand-coloured)

The Flowers collection resonates strongly with Warhol’s early illustrations from the 1950s. After moving to New York in 1949, Warhol started working as a commercial fashion illustrator, producing drawings for popular magazines like Vogue, Glamour Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar. Through this work, Warhol honed his excellent draughtsmanship and innovative approach to colour and composition which shines through in the prints in this collection.

The prints in this collection capture Warhol’s love for line drawings and his attention to detail. The works differ from other prints by the artist which emphasise composition over outline, focussing more on layers and geometric shapes than the actual details of the subjects being depicted. The flowers are coloured with subdued shades of cool colours and set against a simple, plain background. As with many of Warhol’s prints, form, colour and composition are flattened and simplified, but what makes these prints notable is their organic and gestural use of fine lines.

The flowers in this collection differ significantly from the collection of Flowers from 1970 which are more abstract and much more similar to Warhol’s signature Pop Art style which is characterised by the use of bright and bold colours, layers of paint and the use of the screen printing technique. In these prints, Warhol uses Dr. Martin’s aniline watercolour dyes so that the colours are free to flow and bleed into one another beyond the structures of their lines.

The hand-painted and hand-drawn quality of the flowers in the 1974 collection brings a more personal element to the prints and reflects Warhol’s delicate touch and diversity as an artist who can produce works in a variety of registers. This personal touch marks these prints apart from Warhol’s other works which have a mass produced, ‘machine-like’ aesthetic.

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