Andy Warhol Orange Country Museum Term Paper

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" "Electric Chair" is squarely of the present, in harsh, artificial pinks and yellows. It is pure pop art, without sympathy for the victim or for any ideology that condemns capital punishment. Not only is there no hope, as voiced in "Saint Perpetuum," there is also no regret, any emotion, and only silkscreened blankness.

If Warhol's work is political, it is not political in a way that opposes capital punishment. Rather it reflects coolly and ironically upon the place of violence in the American penal system, and its acceptance of the electric chair as an instrument of justice.

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Even death, if it is part of the culture, is accepted, so long as it is portrayed in the right way, either by punishing the guilty, or lit with the sanitized, fluorescent bright colors of the media's gaze. The work is without a position, without emotion, almost drained of humanity, like the nature of the punishment it depicts.

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