'Dissection Class', Andy Warhol

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Artwork details

Artist

Andy Warhol (1928‑1987)

Title

Dissection Class

Date 1986

Medium6 photographs, gelatine silver print on paper and thread

Dimensionsobject: 695 x 805 mm

Collection

Tate / National Galleries of Scotland

Acquisition ARTIST ROOMS Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008

Reference

AR00288

Not on display

Online caption

Following the gift of a camera in 1976, Warhol began to photographically document every aspect of his life from the people he met to graffiti on the streets. In 1986 he developed some of these images into what became known as his stitched photographs. Created by sewing several identical images together, these works are indebted to his early screenprints in their use of repetition and grid formation. Throughout Warhol’s oeuvre, the theme of death features strongly. The repetition of such a gruesome photograph is reminiscent of his 'Death and Disaster' works of the 1960s… (read more)