Letter to Andy Warhol

Hi uncle Andy Warhol,

 

            Well done on your collection book! I found your book in our UCI library because I had to look your books up for my Artist as Writer class. I was fascinated by one of your pop artwork, especially a print of the famous 60s actress Natalie Wood, who was well-known in a movie called "Red Bull Without a Cause." On the canvas, there are duplications of Wood's pop art images. Some of them overlap each other horizontally. Some of the prints are half transparent; some of them have horizontal patterns. I really like that piece of art because it fully explains the critic of the conventional society. It criticizes the representation of women. The overlapping images show that the duplication images ruin the original image. The duplication of the celebrity shows that these women are like a representation of an “ideal woman” in a bourgeois society. This piece of art successfully shows how women are measured by the standard of what women should look like. Women are like objects- they are passive. You are criticizing how the modern world shape women nowadays. The repetitions of the image are so vulnerable that they overlap with each other. This destroys the image itself. The concept of overlapping destroys its own original image. It shows that the representation of women destroys its own personal uniqueness. There is also no original in the picture because there are too many representations that the original become a representation itself. There is no original image because all of the images are representations. The image is not Natalie Wood anymore, but a celebrity that has a perfect smiley face and a pair of big pretty eyes. I also have some suggestions regarding your artwork. Since this is a print, you can also use different colors, such as blue, organ and red. I would love to see a golden print of her just like the Golden Monroe you did. 

 

Best,

Angel Ho