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Medium: Metal
Homemade Hermes Birkin Bag ( Pink ) 2015 by Shelter Serra
Homemade Hermes Birkin Bag ( Pink ) 2015 by Shelter Serra

Homemade Hermes Birkin Bag ( Pink ) 2015 by Shelter Serra

By Shelter Serra

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Homemade Hermes Birkin Bag ( Kelly Green ) 2015, 15”x14.5”x1.5” inches unframed, 18.75 "x 18.75 x 2.5 framed Cast Resin, Edition of 15 Also available in Kelly Green, White, Gold and Silver. The frame is a white shadow box frame with plexiglass. The Homemade Hermes Birkin Bag is a sculpture that celebrates the beauty, and status, that the docents of fashion have bestowed upon coveted objects and accessories as such. In a Duchampian gesture of representation, the artist has created an object that has been “elevated to uselessness”, yet reveals much about our society’s infatuation with consumption and materialism. Cast in resin the sculpture becomes an apropos trope of our time, a perfect conversation starter. Shelter Serra’s paintings, sculptures, and drawings explore mass consumption and cultural identity. He juxtaposes subject matters that are both common and recognizable: a Campbell's Soup Can, a copper plated baseball hat, and a Hermes Birkin bag...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Paintings

Materials

Enamel

"Angels"
"Angels"

"Angels"

Located in Edinburgh, GB

In a shimmering realm of pure gold, two celestial beings emerge in graceful harmony, their elegant silhouettes carved with quiet reverence against a luminous field of radiant gold le...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Metal Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Martisha
Martisha

Martisha

Located in Edinburgh, GB

Materials: Oil on canvas, gold, copper and silver leaf, oil pastel The image of a woman sitting in front of the mirror thinking

Category

2010s Metal Paintings

Materials

Gold

18th Century Italian Old Master Tempera on Panel Painting "Jesus Road to Emmaus"
18th Century Italian Old Master Tempera on Panel Painting "Jesus Road to Emmaus"

18th Century Italian Old Master Tempera on Panel Painting "Jesus Road to Emmaus"

Located in Portland, OR

An important 18th century Italian Old Master tempera on copper panel Baroque painting, "The Road to Emmaus", circa 1700. The painting represents the early resurrection biblical story...

Category

Early 18th Century Baroque Metal Paintings

Materials

Copper

Mixed Media on Woven Fabriano Painting "Uprising"

Mixed Media on Woven Fabriano Painting "Uprising"

By Anushka Kempken

Located in Cape Town, ZA

This unique artwork is created through interweaving and twisting strips of painted fabriano paper in order to create a complex composition with depth and texture. The artwork is fram...

Category

2010s Contemporary Metal Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

"Mixed-Media Abstract Painting 'Bitch - A Love Letter to Rage', 2010-"
"Mixed-Media Abstract Painting 'Bitch - A Love Letter to Rage', 2010-"

"Mixed-Media Abstract Painting 'Bitch - A Love Letter to Rage', 2010-"

By Michelle Thomas Artist

Located in Woodstock, GA

“Bitch - A Love Letter to Rage”, is a fierce, original mixed-media painting that transforms a historically derogatory word into a declaration of strength, survival, and reclamation. ...

Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Metal Paintings

Materials

Stone, Wire

Original-Primary Red-Sunlit-British Awarded Artist-Gold Leaf oil on canvas
Original-Primary Red-Sunlit-British Awarded Artist-Gold Leaf oil on canvas

Original-Primary Red-Sunlit-British Awarded Artist-Gold Leaf oil on canvas

Located in London, GB

Primary Colour Series- Red is Shizico Yi's on going project, inspired by Japanese woodblock Print and the a nod to calligraphy tradition. The series is a continuation of her "Sunlit ...

Category

2010s Abstract Impressionist Metal Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Follow the pink rabbit - abstract art, line drawing
Follow the pink rabbit - abstract art, line drawing

Follow the pink rabbit - abstract art, line drawing

By Mila Akopova

Located in Fort Lee, NJ

Interior design paintings. The artwork were done with acrylic, gold leafing pen 18 kt in gold and black color on canvas size 48x36". This is the "Many thoughts, one head" series. Th...

Category

2010s Minimalist Metal Paintings

Materials

Gold

Original-Once in a Sturgeon Moon-Brit Awarded Artist-plein-air with gold-leaf
Original-Once in a Sturgeon Moon-Brit Awarded Artist-plein-air with gold-leaf

Original-Once in a Sturgeon Moon-Brit Awarded Artist-plein-air with gold-leaf

Located in London, GB

Painted en plein air beneath the final full moon of summer—the Sturgeon Moon—this work captures a rare moment when the florals in Shizico Yi’s garden glowed under brilliant moonlight...

Category

2010s Abstract Impressionist Metal Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Living for the Now 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Neo-Expressionism
Living for the Now 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Neo-Expressionism

Living for the Now 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Neo-Expressionism

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Paintings

Materials

Enamel

Tathagata: Contemporary Mixed Media Buddha Painting by Sax Berlin

Tathagata: Contemporary Mixed Media Buddha Painting by Sax Berlin

By Sax Berlin

Located in Brecon, Powys

Tathagata - a Pali or Sanscrit word used primarily by Siddartha Gautama Buddha to refer to himself. However it also the term for one who has reached enlightenment through Buddhist principles & has as many as eight different meanings. Generally accepted is the translation one who has thus arrived. And this vivid painting from Berlin has arrived! Drawing on his knowledge of the faith & his research into the theme this is a beautiful & informed rendition of Buddha. The colours are vibrant but enable one to look deep and take the essence of tranquility from the image. This Buddha would sit happily on an altar or a home corner of peace and tranquility, giving an essence of calm & preparedness to those who stand before it. Oil paint using hand ground pigments, 24 ct gold and silver...

Category

2010s Contemporary Metal Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf

"Uncertainty"

"Uncertainty"

By Tim Rees

Located in Scottsdale, AZ

Timothy Rees was fascinated with drawing throughout his youth and after high school pursued a degree in animation. The pull to painting portraits and figures was strong, however, le...

Category

2010s Contemporary Metal Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

"It's a Casual Thing, " Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting
"It's a Casual Thing, " Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting

"It's a Casual Thing, " Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting

By Ned Martin

Located in Westport, CT

This abstract painting by Ned Martin is made with oil paint and recycled aluminum on board. It features a grid composition with a light layers of blue, black, and silver paint, with ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Metal Paintings

Materials

Metal

"Sorrow"

"Sorrow"

By Tim Rees

Located in Scottsdale, AZ

Timothy Rees was fascinated with drawing throughout his youth and after high school pursued a degree in animation. The pull to painting portraits and figures was strong, however, le...

Category

2010s Contemporary Metal Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Allegory of Abundance

Allegory of Abundance

Located in New York, NY

Painted in collaboration with Hendrick van Balen (Antwerp, 1575 – 1632). Provenance: Private Collection, Uruguay, since the 1930s. The eldest son of Jan Br...

Category

17th Century Old Masters Metal Paintings

Materials

Copper

The Currency

The Currency

By Damien Hirst

Located in London, GB

Damien Hirst The Currency 8321, 2021 Enamel paint on paper 20 x 30 cm 7.8 x 11.8 inches Damien Hirst, a poster boy for the Young British Artists who rose to prominence in late 1980s...

Category

2010s Contemporary Metal Paintings

Materials

Enamel

"Cherry" Original Artwork, 24kt Gold on Museum Glass
"Cherry" Original Artwork, 24kt Gold on Museum Glass

"Cherry" Original Artwork, 24kt Gold on Museum Glass

By Kate Breakey

Located in Denver, CO

About the artist: Kate Breakey is internationally known for her large-scale, richly hand-colored photographs including her acclaimed series of luminous portraits of birds, flowers a...

Category

2010s Photorealist Metal Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Portrait of King Edward VI, Oil on panel with Gold Leaf, 18th Century English
Portrait of King Edward VI, Oil on panel with Gold Leaf, 18th Century English

Portrait of King Edward VI, Oil on panel with Gold Leaf, 18th Century English

Located in London, GB

Oil on oak panel Image size: 25 1/2 x 19 inches (37.5 x 27 inches) 18th Century Auricular gilt frame Provenance New York private collection This portrait of the King Edward VI depicts the boy-king standing in a black and gold embroidered doublet, wearing a jewelled cap. King Edward holds a staff with a globus cruciger set on the table beside him. No expense has been spared in the making of this piece, with gold leaf being applied in many areas to give the effect of the costume's gold embroidery, chain of office and other metal accessories. As the precious male heir to the Tudor dynasty...

Category

Early 18th Century English School Metal Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Shimmer Abstraction, Photorealist Acrylic Painting on Aluminum by David Kessler
Shimmer Abstraction, Photorealist Acrylic Painting on Aluminum by David Kessler

Shimmer Abstraction, Photorealist Acrylic Painting on Aluminum by David Kessler

Located in Long Island City, NY

Shimmer Abstraction David T. Kessler, American (1950) Date: 2005 Acrylic on Brushed Aluminum mounted to board, signed, titled and dated on verso Size: 48 x 72 in. (121.92 x 182.88 cm)

Category

Early 2000s Photorealist Metal Paintings

Materials

Metal

"Coffee In The Morning!" - Warm Neutrals, Energetic, ON Sale - Artist Relocating
"Coffee In The Morning!" - Warm Neutrals, Energetic, ON Sale - Artist Relocating

"Coffee In The Morning!" - Warm Neutrals, Energetic, ON Sale - Artist Relocating

By Michelle Thomas Artist

Located in Woodstock, GA

"Coffee in the Morning" – Textured Abstract Acrylic Painting Celebrating Daily Ritual "Coffee in the Morning" is a large-scale, square contemporary abstract painting by artist Miche...

Category

2010s Contemporary Metal Paintings

Materials

Wire

"Brian O'Neill's 'Patina' Original Acrylic Painting with 24K Gold Leaf"
"Brian O'Neill's 'Patina' Original Acrylic Painting with 24K Gold Leaf"

"Brian O'Neill's 'Patina' Original Acrylic Painting with 24K Gold Leaf"

Located in Denver, CO

Brian O'Neill's "Patina" is a captivating original artwork created in 2024. This piece measures 24 x 24 x 1.50 inches (60.96 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm) and features a sophisticated blend of ...

Category

2010s Abstract Impressionist Metal Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf, Copper

Art Deco Painting titled "Swimming Swans"
Art Deco Painting titled "Swimming Swans"

Art Deco Painting titled "Swimming Swans"

Located in Fredericksburg, VA

This stunning Art Deco composition by Florida-based artist Alfonso T. Toran captures two swans gliding across a calm, golden-toned surface. Rendered in rich, stylized detail, the pie...

Category

Early 20th Century Art Deco Metal Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Oil on Canvas of Jackie O with Gold Leaf   49 x 51
Oil on Canvas of Jackie O with Gold Leaf   49 x 51

Oil on Canvas of Jackie O with Gold Leaf 49 x 51

By Christina Major

Located in West Palm Beach, FL

Words: Now I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our childr...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Metal Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Angel Of Peace: Contemporary Mixed Media Figurative Painting
Angel Of Peace: Contemporary Mixed Media Figurative Painting

Angel Of Peace: Contemporary Mixed Media Figurative Painting

By Sax Berlin

Located in Brecon, Powys

In these testing times it's become easy to turn inwards rather than looking outwards into the world. In a painting that is archetypical of Sax Berlin Angel of Peace is a reflection ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Metal Paintings

Materials

Marble, Gold Leaf

Mine-original realism wildlife sculpture-oil painting-Artwork-contemporary Art
Mine-original realism wildlife sculpture-oil painting-Artwork-contemporary Art

Mine-original realism wildlife sculpture-oil painting-Artwork-contemporary Art

By Henk Jan Sanderman

Located in London, Chelsea

We offer complimentary worldwide shipping and cover all tariffs and import taxes for this artwork. This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet C...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Metal Paintings

Materials

Bronze

The Farm
The Farm

The Farm

By Greg Decker

Located in Atlanta, GA

Greg's witty and charming oil painting on aluminium comes framed in a floater frame which adds 1.75 inches all the way around. "Greg Decker is a visionary painter. His work epitomise...

Category

2010s Conceptual Metal Paintings

Materials

Metal

Original-Foxgloves Blue in Yellow-British Awarded Artist-Summer Bloom series
Original-Foxgloves Blue in Yellow-British Awarded Artist-Summer Bloom series

Original-Foxgloves Blue in Yellow-British Awarded Artist-Summer Bloom series

Located in London, GB

Foxgloves Blue in Yellow is part of Shizico Yi’s celebrated Summer Bloom series, a body of work in which the artist honours the arrival of summer—her most treasured season for plein ...

Category

2010s Abstract Impressionist Metal Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Magic 5060

Magic 5060

By Kate Salenfriend

Located in Napa, CA

Surrounded by artistic inspiration from a very early age, Kate Salenfriend learned most of her technical skills from her great-grandfather, Stewart Robertson, the registered Californ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Ellie Riley "Tactile Visions-Red" 4-Foot Acrylic & Stainless Steel on Canvas
Ellie Riley "Tactile Visions-Red" 4-Foot Acrylic & Stainless Steel on Canvas

Ellie Riley "Tactile Visions-Red" 4-Foot Acrylic & Stainless Steel on Canvas

Located in Miami, FL

ELLIE RILEY – "TACTILE VISIONS-RED" Acrylic on Canvas and Stainless Steel ⚜ Hand Signed, Dated & Titled Verso ⚜ Frameless Display A MINIMALIST, TEXTURED EXPLORATION IN RED AND S...

Category

Early 2000s Abstract Metal Paintings

Materials

Stainless Steel

Woman with Fish Bowl

Woman with Fish Bowl

By Greg Decker

Located in Atlanta, GA

"Greg Decker is a visionary painter. His work epitomizes the passion that comes from a deep love of art, poetry, and music. His paintings show how art is both the consolation for, ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Metal Paintings

Materials

Metal

"Elvis", Denied Andy Warhol Silver & Black Pop Art Painting by Charles Lutz
"Elvis", Denied Andy Warhol Silver & Black Pop Art Painting by Charles Lutz

"Elvis", Denied Andy Warhol Silver & Black Pop Art Painting by Charles Lutz

By Charles Lutz

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Elvis, Metallic Silver and Black Full Length Silkscreen Painting by Charles Lutz Silkscreen and silver enamel painted on vintage 1960's era linen with Artist's Denied stamp of the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board. 82" x 40" inches 2010 Lutz's 2007 ''Warhol Denied'' series gained international attention by calling into question the importance of originality or lack thereof in the work of Andy Warhol. The authentication/denial process of the [[Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board]] was used to create value by submitting recreations of Warhol works for judgment with the full intention for the works to be formally marked "DENIED". The final product of the conceptual project being "officially denied" "Warhol" paintings authored by Lutz. Based on the full-length Elvis Presley paintings by Pop Artist Andy Warhol in 1964, this is likely one of his most iconic images, next to Campbell's Soup Cans and portraits of Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor, and Marlon Brando. This is the rarest of the Elvis works from the series, as Lutz sourced a vintage roll of 1960's primed artist linen which was used for this one Elvis. The silkscreen, like Warhol's embraced imperfections, like the slight double image printing of the Elvis image. Lutz received his BFA in Painting and Art History from Pratt Institute and studied Human Dissection and Anatomy at Columbia University, New York. Lutz's work deals with perceptions and value structures, specifically the idea of the transference of values. Lutz's most recently presented an installation of new sculptures dealing with consumerism at Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater House in 2022. Lutz's 2007 Warhol Denied series received international attention calling into question the importance of originality in a work of art. The valuation process (authentication or denial) of the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board was used by the artist to create value by submitting recreations of Warhol works for judgment, with the full intention for the works to be formally marked "DENIED" of their authenticity. The final product of this conceptual project is "Officially DENIED" "Warhol" paintings authored by Lutz. Later in 2013, Lutz went on to do one of his largest public installations to date. At the 100th Anniversary of Marcel Duchamp's groundbreaking and controversial Armory Show, Lutz was asked by the curator of Armory Focus: USA and former Director of The Andy Warhol Museum, Eric Shiner to create a site-specific installation representing the US. The installation "Babel" (based on Pieter Bruegel's famous painting) consisted of 1500 cardboard replicas of Warhol's Brillo Box (Stockholm Type) stacked 20 ft tall. All 1500 boxes were then given to the public freely, debasing the Brillo Box as an art commodity by removing its value, in addition to debasing its willing consumers. Elvis was "the greatest cultural force in the Twentieth Century. He introduced the beat to everything, and he changed everything - music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution." Leonard Bernstein in: Exh. Cat., Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art and traveling, Elvis + Marilyn 2 x Immortal, 1994-97, p. 9. Andy Warhol "quite simply changed how we all see the world around us." Kynaston McShine in: Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art (and traveling), Andy Warhol: Retrospective, 1996, p. 13. In the summer of 1963 Elvis Presley was just twenty-eight years old but already a legend of his time. During the preceding seven years - since Heartbreak Hotel became the biggest-selling record of 1956 - he had recorded seventeen number-one singles and seven number-one albums; starred in eleven films, countless national TV appearances, tours, and live performances; earned tens of millions of dollars; and was instantly recognized across the globe. The undisputed King of Rock and Roll, Elvis was the biggest star alive: a cultural phenomenon of mythic proportions apparently no longer confined to the man alone. As the eminent composer Leonard Bernstein put it, Elvis was "the greatest cultural force in the Twentieth Century. He introduced the beat to everything, and he changed everything - music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution." (Exh. Cat., Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art (and traveling), Elvis + Marilyn 2 x Immortal, 1994, p. 9). In the summer of 1963 Andy Warhol was thirty-four years old and transforming the parameters of visual culture in America. The focus of his signature silkscreen was leveled at subjects he brilliantly perceived as the most important concerns of day to day contemporary life. By appropriating the visual vernacular of consumer culture and multiplying readymade images gleaned from newspapers, magazines and advertising, he turned a mirror onto the contradictions behind quotidian existence. Above all else he was obsessed with themes of celebrity and death, executing intensely multifaceted and complex works in series that continue to resound with universal relevance. His unprecedented practice re-presented how society viewed itself, simultaneously reinforcing and radically undermining the collective psychology of popular culture. He epitomized the tide of change that swept through the 1960s and, as Kynaston McShine has concisely stated, "He quite simply changed how we all see the world around us." (Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art (and traveling), Andy Warhol: Retrospective, 1996, p. 13). Thus in the summer of 1963 there could not have been a more perfect alignment of artist and subject than Warhol and Elvis. Perhaps the most famous depiction of the biggest superstar by the original superstar artist, Double Elvis is a historic paradigm of Pop Art from a breath-taking moment in Art History. With devastating immediacy and efficiency, Warhol's canvas seduces our view with a stunning aesthetic and confronts our experience with a sophisticated array of thematic content. Not only is there all of Elvis, man and legend, but we are also presented with the specter of death, staring at us down the barrel of a gun; and the lone cowboy, confronting the great frontier and the American dream. The spray painted silver screen denotes the glamour and glory of cinema, the artificiality of fantasy, and the idea of a mirror that reveals our own reality back to us. At the same time, Warhol's replication of Elvis' image as a double stands as metaphor for the means and effects of mass-media and its inherent potential to manipulate and condition. These thematic strata function in simultaneous concert to deliver a work of phenomenal conceptual brilliance. The portrait of a man, the portrait of a country, and the portrait of a time, Double Elvis is an indisputable icon for our age. The source image was a publicity still for the movie Flaming Star, starring Presley as the character Pacer Burton and directed by Don Siegel in 1960. The film was originally intended as a vehicle for Marlon Brando and produced by David Weisbart, who had made James Dean's Rebel Without a Cause in 1955. It was the first of two Twentieth Century Fox productions Presley was contracted to by his manager Colonel Tom Parker, determined to make the singer a movie star. For the compulsive movie-fan Warhol, the sheer power of Elvis wielding a revolver as the reluctant gunslinger presented the zenith of subject matter: ultimate celebrity invested with the ultimate power to issue death. Warhol's Elvis is physically larger than life and wears the expression that catapulted him into a million hearts: inexplicably and all at once fearful and resolute; vulnerable and predatory; innocent and explicit. It is the look of David Halberstam's observation that "Elvis Presley was an American original, the rebel as mother's boy, alternately sweet and sullen, ready on demand to be either respectable or rebellious." (Exh. Cat., Boston, Op. Cit.). Indeed, amidst Warhol's art there is only one other subject whose character so ethereally defies categorization and who so acutely conflated total fame with the inevitability of mortality. In Warhol's work, only Elvis and Marilyn harness a pictorial magnetism of mythic proportions. With Marilyn Monroe, whom Warhol depicted immediately after her premature death in August 1962, he discovered a memento mori to unite the obsessions driving his career: glamour, beauty, fame, and death. As a star of the silver screen and the definitive international sex symbol, Marilyn epitomized the unattainable essence of superstardom that Warhol craved. Just as there was no question in 1963, there remains still none today that the male equivalent to Marilyn is Elvis. However, despite his famous 1968 adage, "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings" Warhol's fascination held purpose far beyond mere idolization. As Rainer Crone explained in 1970, Warhol was interested in movie stars above all else because they were "people who could justifiably be seen as the nearest thing to representatives of mass culture." (Rainer Crone, Andy Warhol, New York, 1970, p. 22). Warhol was singularly drawn to the idols of Elvis and Marilyn, as he was to Marlon Brando and Liz Taylor, because he implicitly understood the concurrence between the projection of their image and the projection of their brand. Some years after the present work he wrote, "In the early days of film, fans used to idolize a whole star - they would take one star and love everything about that star...So you should always have a product that's not just 'you.' An actress should count up her plays and movies and a model should count up her photographs and a writer should count up his words and an artist should count up his pictures so you always know exactly what you're worth, and you don't get stuck thinking your product is you and your fame, and your aura." (Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again), San Diego, New York and London, 1977, p. 86). The film stars of the late 1950s and early 1960s that most obsessed Warhol embodied tectonic shifts in wider cultural and societal values. In 1971 John Coplans argued that Warhol was transfixed by the subject of Elvis, and to a lesser degree by Marlon Brando and James Dean, because they were "authentically creative, and not merely products of Hollywood's fantasy or commercialism. All three had originative lives, and therefore are strong personalities; all three raised - at one level or another - important questions as to the quality of life in America and the nature of its freedoms. Implicit in their attitude is a condemnation of society and its ways; they project an image of the necessity for the individual to search for his own future, not passively, but aggressively, with commitment and passion." (John Coplans, "Andy Warhol and Elvis Presley," Studio International, vol. 181, no. 930, February 1971, pp. 51-52). However, while Warhol unquestionably adored these idols as transformative heralds, the suggestion that his paintings of Elvis are uncritical of a generated public image issued for mass consumption fails to appreciate the acuity of his specific re-presentation of the King. As with Marilyn, Liz and Marlon, Warhol instinctively understood the Elvis brand as an industrialized construct, designed for mass consumption like a Coca-Cola bottle or Campbell's Soup Can, and radically revealed it as a precisely composed non-reality. Of course Elvis offered Warhol the biggest brand of all, and he accentuates this by choosing a manifestly contrived version of Elvis-the-film-star, rather than the raw genius of Elvis as performing Rock n' Roll pioneer. A few months prior to the present work he had silkscreened Elvis' brooding visage in a small cycle of works based on a simple headshot, including Red Elvis, but the absence of context in these works minimizes the critical potency that is so present in Double Elvis. With Double Elvis we are confronted by a figure so familiar to us, yet playing a role relating to violence and death that is entirely at odds with the associations entrenched with the singer's renowned love songs. Although we may think this version of Elvis makes sense, it is the overwhelming power of the totemic cipher of the Elvis legend that means we might not even question why he is pointing a gun rather than a guitar. Thus Warhol interrogates the limits of the popular visual vernacular, posing vital questions of collective perception and cognition in contemporary society. The notion that this self-determinedly iconic painting shows an artificial paradigm is compounded by Warhol's enlistment of a reflective metallic surface, a treatment he reserved for his most important portraits of Elvis, Marilyn, Marlon and Liz. Here the synthetic chemical silver paint becomes allegory for the manufacture of the Elvis product, and directly anticipates the artist's 1968 statement: "Everything is sort of artificial. I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts. The artificial fascinates me, the bright and shiny..." (Artist quoted in Exh. Cat., Stockholm, Moderna Museet and traveling, Andy Warhol, 1968, n.p.). At the same time, the shiny silver paint of Double Elvis unquestionably denotes the glamour of the silver screen and the attractive fantasies of cinema. At exactly this time in the summer of 1963 Warhol bought his first movie camera and produced his first films such as Sleep, Kiss and Tarzan and Jane Regained. Although the absence of plot or narrative convention in these movies was a purposely anti-Hollywood gesture, the unattainability of classic movie stardom still held profound allure and resonance for Warhol. He remained a celebrity and film fanatic, and it was exactly this addiction that so qualifies his sensational critique of the industry machinations behind the stars he adored. Double Elvis was executed less than eighteen months after he had created 32 Campbell's Soup Cans for his immortal show at the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles in July and August 1962, and which is famously housed in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In the intervening period he had produced the series Dollar Bills, Coca-Cola Bottles, Suicides, Disasters, and Silver Electric Chairs, all in addition to the portrait cycles of Marilyn and Liz. This explosive outpouring of astonishing artistic invention stands as definitive testament to Warhol's aptitude to seize the most potent images of his time. He recognized that not only the product itself, but also the means of consumption - in this case society's abandoned deification of Elvis - was symptomatic of a new mode of existence. As Heiner Bastian has precisely summated: "the aura of utterly affirmative idolization already stands as a stereotype of a 'consumer-goods style' expression of an American way of life and of the mass-media culture of a nation." (Exh. Cat., Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie (and traveling), Andy Warhol: Retrospective, 2001, p. 28). For Warhol, the act of image replication and multiplication anaesthetized the effect of the subject, and while he had undermined the potency of wealth in 200 One Dollar Bills, and cheated the terror of death by electric chair in Silver Disaster # 6, the proliferation of Elvis here emasculates a prefabricated version of character authenticity. Here the cinematic quality of variety within unity is apparent in the degrees to which Presley's arm and gun become less visible to the left of the canvas. The sense of movement is further enhanced by a sense of receding depth as the viewer is presented with the ghost like repetition of the figure in the left of the canvas, a 'jump effect' in the screening process that would be replicated in the multiple Elvis paintings. The seriality of the image heightens the sense of a moving image, displayed for us like the unwinding of a reel of film. Elvis was central to Warhol's legendary solo exhibition organized by Irving Blum at the Ferus Gallery in the Fall of 1963 - the show having been conceived around the Elvis paintings since at least May of that year. A well-known installation photograph shows the present work prominently presented among the constant reel of canvases, designed to fill the space as a filmic diorama. While the Elvis canvases...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Metal Paintings

Materials

Enamel

Metal paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

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