Diamond Dust Shoes
| Artist | Andy WARHOL |
|---|---|
| Year | 1980-1981 |
| Material/ Technique | polymer paint, silkscreen ink and diamond dust on canvas |
| Size/ Duration | H228.6 × W177.8cm |
| Copyright Notice | © 2018 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by ARS, New York & JASPAR, Tokyo C2264 |
| Year of acquisition/ donation | 2005（作品購入年月日：2005/03/31） |
| Description | Born in Pittsburgh, USA in 1928. Died in New York in 1987. Born to Czechoslovakian immigrants, Andy Warhol studied commercial art at Carnegie Institute of Technology. In the mid-1950s he worked as a commercial designer in New York before beginning to make fine art in 1960. Warhol met with stunning success after employing the techniques of mechanical reproduction, such as silkscreen, to create images from popular culture. He also launched a magazine, created experimental films, produced music and conducted various projects across a wide range of media. The result was his exerting a massive influence on subculture. This work is from Warhol’s Retrospective series, which he began in 1979. In it he sampled motifs from his own best-known works. In 1955, when he was still working as a commercial designer, Warhol had been commissioned by shoemaker I. Miller to make a series of illustrations on the theme of ladies’ shoes. This work relates back to that very early motif. At first Warhol had considered making the work using diamond dust, but in order to maximize the sparkle that would emanate from the completed work, he ultimately settled on crushed glass. Thus, it was with shoes that Warhol made a name for himself as a commercial designer. Also, the fact that he named the drawings after famous people suggests that he saw shoes as a metaphor for fame and success. That notion is emphasized here, with the shoes themselves having been made to resemble diamonds – a symbol of wealth. |
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