Raad, Walid. “My neck is thinner than a hair.” MoMa Learning. New York,
2001. MoMa. New York. https://www.moma.org
Qureshi, Imran, “And how many rains must
before the stains are washed clean”, site-spe
painting, 2013, MoMa, www.nytimes.com
,“I REALIZED
ERYTHING I DO
ED TO DEATH”
ANDY WARHOL
Pop artist who has b
age of the 20th century,
of New York. He became fa
obsession with celebrity, c
mechanical reproduction. H
from popular culture and e
ters using the medium of s
, RED EXPLOSION: ATOMIC BOMB
It was created in 1965 in New York, 20 years after the bomb was used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is a large canvas o
tall in which a grainy mushroom cloud image is silkscreened some twenty nine times across five diminishing registers. It is a vis
all the bombs fall, creating the mushroom cloud. As the viewer follows the panels to the end, the picture becomes fuzzier a
image actually is-the explosion of a nuclear warhead-becomes indiscernible. The Atomic Bomb is a description – the constan
terrible sight.The technique of repetition in a line-up created a message critiquing the way bomb is remembered in age of ma
NUCLEAR POWER
In the 20th century, the World became acquainted with the atomic bomb that was developed in 1938. While now atom
threat, during WW and throughout the Cold War it became more prominent and real. In 9 the USA has dropped a nuc
Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan that marked the end of the WW2. As a result, over 200 000 people were killed, and the ter
After repeated deployment in the Bikini atoll tests, the bomb became standardized, its implications of global doom were scaled
of Americans, it was seen as simply another weapon to be used in the much larger theater of the Cold War.
Warhol’s own telling in 9 of the series’ origin–his account that “every time you turned on the radio they said something
to die.’
FUNCTION
Red Explosion is the sole work by Andy Warhol about atomic bombing in terms of the subject matter and the style. This
in the context of Warhol’s portfolio, a document that has a descriptive function of the nuclear history. Also, Warhol uses the
feelings about the status of the mushroom cloud’s image within the postwar culture. Red Explosion is a work that represent
cance of the events that is shaped by their circulation and recognition in media, especially newspapers.
2001. MoMa. New York. https://www.moma.org
Qureshi, Imran, “And how many rains must
before the stains are washed clean”, site-spe
painting, 2013, MoMa, www.nytimes.com
,“I REALIZED
ERYTHING I DO
ED TO DEATH”
ANDY WARHOL
Pop artist who has b
age of the 20th century,
of New York. He became fa
obsession with celebrity, c
mechanical reproduction. H
from popular culture and e
ters using the medium of s
, RED EXPLOSION: ATOMIC BOMB
It was created in 1965 in New York, 20 years after the bomb was used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is a large canvas o
tall in which a grainy mushroom cloud image is silkscreened some twenty nine times across five diminishing registers. It is a vis
all the bombs fall, creating the mushroom cloud. As the viewer follows the panels to the end, the picture becomes fuzzier a
image actually is-the explosion of a nuclear warhead-becomes indiscernible. The Atomic Bomb is a description – the constan
terrible sight.The technique of repetition in a line-up created a message critiquing the way bomb is remembered in age of ma
NUCLEAR POWER
In the 20th century, the World became acquainted with the atomic bomb that was developed in 1938. While now atom
threat, during WW and throughout the Cold War it became more prominent and real. In 9 the USA has dropped a nuc
Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan that marked the end of the WW2. As a result, over 200 000 people were killed, and the ter
After repeated deployment in the Bikini atoll tests, the bomb became standardized, its implications of global doom were scaled
of Americans, it was seen as simply another weapon to be used in the much larger theater of the Cold War.
Warhol’s own telling in 9 of the series’ origin–his account that “every time you turned on the radio they said something
to die.’
FUNCTION
Red Explosion is the sole work by Andy Warhol about atomic bombing in terms of the subject matter and the style. This
in the context of Warhol’s portfolio, a document that has a descriptive function of the nuclear history. Also, Warhol uses the
feelings about the status of the mushroom cloud’s image within the postwar culture. Red Explosion is a work that represent
cance of the events that is shaped by their circulation and recognition in media, especially newspapers.
