Anniversary Donald Duck 1985

Andy Warhol made this print of Donald Duck, sometime in his career, using silkscreen. Look at how he approaches the image, building it up with these flat, bold colors, kind of like a coloring book gone wild! The surface has this cool, almost gritty texture, which comes from the screenprinting process. I love the way Warhol doesn’t try to hide the mechanics of it all. It's so unlike a painter trying to blend everything smoothly; instead, the piece embraces its process. Take a look at the red outlines of Donald's hat. It's almost as if he’s playing with the idea of mass production, making a unique work, but not trying to hard to disguise its roots in something commercial. This feels like a conversation with artists like Roy Lichtenstein, who blew up comic book panels. It makes you wonder what the difference is between "high" and "low" art, or if there even *is* one!