![]() ![]() After much renovation, they finally opened in 1975. Some bottles are askew, some are darker green.In 1973 the Society was able to purchase the building at 112 N. ![]() But, while each of the Cokes in Warhol’s silkscreen looks nearly identical, there are subtle variations. Warhol created this piece by silkscreening ink onto canvas, the same method used to mass-produce products like T-shirts. Each of us has access to everything our neighbor has-we just go to the store! But, can everyone, really? And is that actually so great? Do you really want the EXACT same thing as everyone around you? “The President drinks coke,” said Warhol, “and you can drink Coca-Cola, too.A coke is a coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke.” Who hasn't? That familiarity was part of Andy Warhol's thinking when he made Green Coca-Cola Bottles. Narrator: I bet you've seen one of these before-and drank one too. So the combination of the kind of anonymity one might see, or the fitting in that this kind of nose change could imply is certainly in keeping with the actual removal of the hand that Warhol pursued in the making of these pictures. Of course we know Warhol, by ’62, became someone who used photography, and used silkscreen to make his paintings, and moved away from this kind of hand-painted image. Narrator: The way Warhol painted this work dovetails with its subject.ĭonna De Salvo: He wanted to achieve what he said was an art that could be “noncommittal and anonymous.” And if one looks at this work, the evidence of the hand is extremely limited. And to the extent that one can even think about buying a new nose. Warhol understood the power of consumption, and how we fit in by consuming. On another level, this work really speaks to the fundamental notion of American assimilation. Warhol, we know, actually had surgery on his nose in the late 1950s, and was also very self-conscious about his own appearance. It’s one of a series of works that Warhol made, which are based on an image for nose surgery that appeared in The National Enquirer. This is a work by Andy Warhol called Before and After, 4. These are the before and after images of a nose job.ĭonna De Salvo: I’m Donna De Salvo, Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Programs at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Looking at these panels, Warhol’s title becomes much clearer. In the right-hand panel, the nose is small, dainty, and slightly upturned. In the panel on the left, the woman’s nose is large, curved, and long. The only difference between the two panels is the size of the woman’s nose. Her eyelashes curl upward perfectly, as if covered in mascara the eyebrows are shaped into skinny arches and the lips are plump and shiny, as they would be when lipstick is applied. In both images, black lines denote her features-a single eye and eyebrow, her mouth, and her nose. Each half contains the same woman’s face in profile, looking towards the left side of the canvas. In fact, Warhol based it on plastic surgeon’s ad in the back of the National Enquirer.Īs the title suggests, the image is divided into two halves: a before, and an after. As a result of stark contrast between the two colors, the work looks like a print or a lithograph. The only colors are a soft, light gray that makes up the background, and a dark, solid black used to depict the forms. Warhol made the work using acrylic paint and graphite pencil. ![]() It is a large linen canvas, measuring eight and a half feet wide by six feet tall-about the size of a king mattress. Narrator: This painting by Andy Warhol is entitled Before and After, and was created in 1962. ![]()
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