I know a chap who has spent upwards of £50k on a model railway. Been married forty years and never shagged his Mrs. ( Pretty sure she's a Lezza )
One thing I've always wondered about him, the, for example, Marilyn paintings: were they printed photographs that he painted over or was the whole thing painted? Need to inspect one up close. Or google it.
They were screen prints iirc. Not two were ever the same, which I think was the point - the disconnect between the subject, the image, and the object. The Campbell’s soup tins were all painted by hand. I went to the Warhol exhibition at the Tate Modern between lockdowns. Whatever you think about Warhol, he took convincing snapshots of the 2nd half of the 20th Century. It’s all there - commerce, celebrity, power, glamour, superficiality and death.
I need to learn about this type of thing. So his were photo-screenprints, he didn't create the outline by hand?
Think he started with a photograph, yeah. The cowboy Elvis one was a still from a movie I believe. He did car crash ones, where he went through the photographic libraries of local US papers.
Think I'll stick to painting but wouldn't mind having a go on one of these contraptions. Find an interesting photo, colour it in. There is an article in The Groan today about a collage artist, pretty good, reminds me of Winston Smith who did the Dead Kennedys album art: https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...rong-joe-webbs-dystopian-collages-in-pictures
