Details Of Renaissance Paintings (Sandro Botticelli, Birth Of Venus, 1482) (F. & S. II.316)
Details Of Renaissance Paintings (Sandro Botticelli, Birth Of Venus, 1482) (F. & S. II.316)
Signed Print
Andy Warhol
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81 x 112cm, Edition of 70, Screenprint
Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 70
Year: 1984
Size: H 81cm x W 112cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: April 2024
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Meaning & Analysis
Andy Warhol’s print Sandro Botticelli, Birth Of Venus, 1482) (F. & S. II.316) draws from Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus (c. 1485-1486) now in the Uffizi gallery in Florence. Warhol has cropped the seashell from which Botticelli’s Venus emerges, reducing the frame to her face, neck, and wisps of billowing red hair. The viewer is left with only the face of what is considered one of the most beautiful Venus paintings. The pop artist uses a simplified colour palette, staying true to the tones of the original image while darkening the background to teal. These choices reframe the artwork for the twentieth century.
Produced in the last years of his life, Warhol’s series, Details of Renaissance Paintings, renders masterworks of Italian Renaissance artists in the twentieth-century medium of screen printing. This particular image, one of six styles from the Botticelli series, stays true to the Quattrocento master’s palette, but updates the image with bright pinks and yellow highlights. Warhol first applied printing to Renaissance masterpieces after seeing the Mona Lisa in New York in 1963. Two decades later, he returned to the subject of the female icon with Botticelli’s Venus, giving her a similar treatment to that of Marilyn Monroe.
Andy Warhol was a leading figure of the Pop Art movement and is often considered the father of Pop Art. Born in 1928, Warhol allowed cultural references of the 20th century to drive his work. From the depiction of glamorous public figures, such as Marilyn Monroe, to the everyday Campbell’s Soup Can, the artist challenged what was considered art by blurring the boundaries between high art and mass consumerism. Warhol's preferred screen printing technique further reiterated his obsession with mass culture, enabling art to be seen as somewhat of a commodity through the reproduced images in multiple colour ways.
