L to R: Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Bruno Bischofberger and Fransesco Clemente, pictured in New York City in 1984 Warhol once wrote in his diary that he preferred the “contributions” of assistant Ronnie Cutrone “because he takes a lot of vitamin B so the canvas turns a really pretty color when it’s his piss.” The artist also experimented with splashing, brushing or pouring various bodily fluids onto his paintings. ![]() ![]() Acid from the urine reacted with the metallic paint, oxidizing to create an “abstract shimmering effect,” per Shira Wolfe of Artland. To create Jean-Michel Basquiat and other oxidation works, Warhol coated canvases with copper or gold paint and either peed on them himself or invited friends and assistants to urinate directly onto the canvas. The portrait, which features a black-and-white silkscreen image of Basquiat covered with green splotches, is expected to fetch upwards of $20 million. One of these so-called oxidation paintings, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1982), is set to go on auction at Christie’s next month, reports Tom Seymour for the Art Newspaper. ![]() Working in the 1970s and ’80s, Warhol rendered some of his lesser-known abstract canvases with an unusual set of materials: namely, his own urine and semen. Most of Andy Warhol’s screenprints and sculptures reproduce instantly recognizable icons of American pop culture: Campbell soup cans, Brillo soap pads, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe.īut the Pop Art pioneer, inspired by the sparse creations of predecessors Barnett Newman and Ad Reinhardt, also dabbled in abstract painting.
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