![]() Troy Donohue, Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor: the characters have the lustre of assembly-line products with custom trim, of things manufactured for sale. The word refers to a technique of printing from solid metal plates and once suggested improved repetition of an image. Warhol approaches repetition in another way, through stereotypes. So Warhol succeeds at failing to repeat, and this failure suggests that successful repetition is to be pitied, while the failure to repeat is to be feared. ![]() Since the medium could easily be used with more precision, and is not, the purpose must be to call attention to the fact of repetition by not repeating precisely. ![]() The silk-screening is a technique allowing precise delineations, but it is used sloppily by Warhol, allowing sentiment and lack of sentiment, care and carelessness, to jostle together. Even one silk-screened print is felt as a repetition, and Warhol repeats these images until repetition is magnified into a theme of variance and invariance, and of the success and failures of identicalness. Silk-screening makes repetition part of the meaning of the image. The silk-screens are made from photographs taken by someone else, and the screening is often done by someone else in Warhol’s factory, so that the artist’s part can be isolated as the choice of images and the decision to repeat the image and perhaps to magnify it. The images are applied through a silk-screen, and can be repeated with a number of variations. The paintings of Andy Warhol present repeated or magnified images: flower-flower-flower car-crash-car-crash, car-crash FLOWER-FLOWER-Flower. Prince of Boredom: The Repetitions and Passivities of Andy Warhol Sidney Janis, 1967 Silk-screening makes repetition part of the meaning of the image. ![]()
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