‘Orange Disaster #5’
1963
Acrylic and silkscreen enamel on canvas, 269.2 x 207 cm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Gift, Harry N. Abrams Family Collection 74.2118
Andy Warhol – August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987
Was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertising that flourished by the 1960s.
After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist. His art used many types of media, including hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music. His studio, The Factory, was a well known gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons. He managed and produced The Velvet Underground, a rock band which had a strong influence on the evolution of punk rock music. He founded Interview magazine and was the author of numerous books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism: The Warhol Sixties. He is also notable as a gay man who lived openly as such before the gay liberation movement, and he is credited with coining the widely used expression “15 minutes of fame”.
ArtWorks
Marilyn Diptych – 1962
Andy Warhol – Self-Portrait – 1986 ; More about this – Warhol Self Portrait
Ads: Paramount, II.352, 1985
Ingrid Bergman – The Nun, II.314, 1983
Inf. taken from TATE.org.uk
Space&Place Diary 
What makes me fell interested in look at Warhol’s work at first was his image “Orange disaster 5” because of the way it is repeating the same subject many times. I see a chair In a empty room, but in fact that chair is representing death. And what I like in fact is the colour he uses to paint it, which gave it a actual horror of the subject, the 15 electrical chairs.
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About Warhol’s art work, I wanted to inspire my project in the way he paints his images. I see them like if each part has a color and each of the colours represents something, He might wanted to tell something in Ingrid Bergman portrait. The 25 Marilyn must have something to say about, it is like each of the faces has a meaning, in case in her life when she was the beautiful woman of the time and then she probably had that bad star times until she dies which I take to be where the image is starting to fade out…
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