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Self-portrait
Creator
Andy WarholAmerican Photographer · 1928–1987
All works by this person →> If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it. > > --Andy Warhol Thus Andy Warhol described himself, being deliberately enigmatic with regard to the depth of his talent. Having received a degree in pictorial design in 1949, he began his professional career as a window dresser and later as a commerci
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- 1986
- Medium
- Polaroid dye diffusion print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Andy Warhol always took the role of playing himself quite seriously, employing a variety of wigs, eyeglasses (including, importantly, sunglasses), and makeup, as well as a subtly changing but always hip wardrobe to present the part of the famous avant-garde artist. For some of his last painted self-portraits, Warhol selected his platinum "fright wig" and, after making a series of Polaroids, combined his own portrait with a silkscreen camouflage pattern on canvas, thereby disguising his own face rather than illuminating it. Warhol's pale face has an almost ghostly appearance, hovering in the midst of a solid black ground punctuated only by wild strands from his reflective wig.
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