Car Crash Yellow
Screenprint on synthetic polymer paint
A pastiche of the Warhol ‘Death & Disaster’ paintings
2010
134.5 x 134.5 x 2.5cm Canvas
Pure Evil explains that a chance email from a Chinese “copy village” gave impetus to his “Nightmare Series.” The village offered, via email, a list of artists it could reproduce, including three Andy Warhol paintings. The idea of Warhol’s entire artistic output distilled right down to three small 64 x 64 pixel thumbnails of Jackie Kennedy, Liz Taylor and an Electric Chair became the inspiration for these doomed paintings .