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Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 60
Year: 1985
Size: H 125cm x W 104cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
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Cologne Cathedral is a signed screen print with diamond dust on Lenox Museum Board produced by Andy Warhol in 1985. The print comes in an edition size of 60 and shows the impressive Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, Germany. The cathedral is Germany’s most visited landmark and draws in visitors from all over the world. By rendering the cathedral in his signature Pop Art style the building, which carries a significant cultural, religious and historical heritage, becomes a Pop Art icon which can be seen alongside Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans and Diamond Dust Shoes.
The print is part of the Cologne Cathedral collection, a series of four prints, all of which depict the famous cathedral. While the prints all capture the cathedral from the same front-on angle, they vary in colour and level of detail. In this print, Warhol uses a variety of bright and vibrant crayon-like lines to delineate the building and its Gothic architecture. The pink, yellow and red lines are set against a bright turquoise backdrop. Cologne Cathedral is the most dynamic print of the collection in terms of colour used and contrasts markedly with Cologne Cathedral (F. & S. II.364) in which Warhol uses a restricted palette of grey tones.
Warhol simplifies the details of the cathedral through the screen printing process and in doing so draws attention to the form of the building and its general beauty.
Andy Warhol was a leading figure of the Pop Art movement and is often considered the father of Pop Art. Born in 1928, Warhol allowed cultural references of the 20th century to drive his work. From the depiction of glamorous public figures, such as Marilyn Monroe, to the everyday Campbell’s Soup Can, the artist challenged what was considered art by blurring the boundaries between high art and mass consumerism. Warhol's preferred screen printing technique further reiterated his obsession with mass culture, enabling art to be seen as somewhat of a commodity through the reproduced images in multiple colour ways.