Transmitting Andy Warhol...

Managed to catch this exhibition at Tate Liverpool on the last weekend.It was the first solo exhibition of Warhol's work in the north of England and even at this late stage was packed out with viewers. 

I've seen some of Warhol's black and white photographs at the Photographer's Gallery last year but this show gave me an opportunity to how his work ranged from film, publishing, music and broadcasting. And it showcased his iconic 'Marilyn Diptych' described by the Tate as 'the third most influential work of modern art and remains one of the most enduring images of all time'.



Unfortunately, you were not allowed to take any photos in the exhibition as I'd like to have captured some of the artwork he did for LP covers and examples of his celebrity magazine Interview which I hadn't seen before unlike the Brillo boxes, soup cans and celebrity portraits.
Can't say I was 'moved' by his multi-media 'The Exploding Plastic Inevitable (EPI) described as a 'total art' environment but that's modern art for you..I'm always drawn more by shape, line and texture,even if I cannot explain work it can still engage me on a number of levels...EPI is a multi- media live performance experiment,  a discordant mix of strobe lighting,live music, multiple slide and film projectors and provocative dances that debuted in 1966 in New York. Afterwards I discovered that the Tate website has a very interesting feature about its legacy http://goo.gl/LFqSWi    It gives you an idea of where Warhol was coming from. Even with this insight,  I still look back at my experience of EPI as being more overwhelming  than  anything else.