The Two Sisters 1982

Andy Warhol made ‘The Two Sisters’ with screenprinting, and oh boy, it's a trip! Just imagine Warhol in his studio, pushing ink through screens, layering those bright, almost cartoonish colors – red, blue, yellow, black – to conjure these…figures. I imagine him thinking about repetition, mass production, but also about the individual, the kind of weird psychological space between them. He takes de Chirico's stark, surrealist stage and slaps it into a pop art machine. The shadows feel heavy, the color is flat and the lines are crisp! This image, so melancholic and strange, becomes electric. The way the shapes repeat, but are slightly off each time, like a glitch in the matrix or deja vu, or like memory itself.