Andy Warhol
Superman, 1981
© The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
In his Myths screenprints Warhol isolated each of the fantasy figures featured in his painting of the same title. He further enhanced the nostalgic allure of these childhood characters -- such as Howdy Doody, the witch, and Superman -- by sprinkling each print with a layer of diamond dust, a material he had first used the previous year in his paintings and prints of Shoes. Produced in the manufacture of industrial diamonds, the powder gives the prints a sparkling surface texture. Warhol's interest in decoratively worked surfaces was already evident in his commercial drawings of the 1950s, several of which he embellished with gold leaf and silver foil.
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