Pop artist

Andy Warhol

Duplicable, but not duplicable art

A massive book style foldable display of 50 Marilyn Monroe images, the left being colour and the right being black and white, in Warhol's trademark silkscreen style aesthetic.

Two books on a speckled black surface, one being a cartoon style book titled Andy Warhol, a graphic biography, showing a young Andy in sunglasses standing in a city, and the other titled Warhol, with a photo from his Flowers collection, showing two pink flowers, one red and one yellow, on a grass background.

I love everything about this guy. His art... there's something about it that just... strikes me, and I think I know why. He made it duplicated, but not. In his book, he mentioned using silkscreening to replicate his pieces, and loving it because it duplicated them... but imperfectly. Every single one was different, unique. A little less colour on that one, a little bit of lining on that one, a little less colour there, more there, every one was different. But the same. I have the same mentality, in my dragons. All of them are the same, but not. It's what I like about them the most in a way!

And this man made that a science. He made that iconic, his thing. And I love that about it. And his art, it's simple, yet... striking. You see one of his pieces, and immediately you know, that's an Andy Warhol, or Andy Warhol inspired. Or just pop art, since he didn't invent the genre, but his name is certainly tied to it.

Girl, you cannot imagine how much I wish I could have been part of his studio The Factory.

Aside from being enthralled by his art and his story for years, my collection with him started as a backpack patch, which by some absolute miracle and completely unexpectedly existed! Y'see, when I was first working on the backpack, I of course searched for my favourite subjects and idols, I found a Kabuto Pokémon, Metroid stuff etcetera, the Canada and UK flags. And not long into it, I popped Andy Warhol embroidered patch into Etsy, and... wha-wha-what?!? There's an embroidered patch of his likeness?!? And like... well done and easily recognizable!?! Oh yes sign me up! So that was very quickly ordered, and came out amazing as you can see.

And then we discovered that some of Andy Warhol's art was being shown at the Tate Modern art gallery! Oh my goodness, so Abby and I booked it on over to there, were we saw that Marilyn Dyptich, my first piece of actual Andy Warhol art in person! It was incredible, standing there in awe. And the photo doesn't do it justice, that thing is HUGE. It's over 2 meters tall, this is not a small thing here.

So, absorbing that for as long as I could, we eventually found our way through the rest of the art gallery, and into the gift shop where I found two Andy Warhol books that caught my attention. At first, I debated whether to just get the photo book by Taschen on the right (to save money), but figured that if I didn't get that graphic biography, I may never see it again or think to search for it. So the fangirl in me snapped up both of them, and I was happy. Technically, though you can't see it in the Britney altar photo, the blue perfume bottle and Britney ball are sitting on top of the graphic biography, put there specifically so he can be in the display as well. The photo book is actually hanging on a nearby shelf, my having put a hole in the upper right corner so I could do so. Don't worry, the margins in that book are massive, and the hole does not pierce the photos of the art in there, and with a brass ferrule to look slick. You can see a photo of it here in the Kabucam page from the 2025 section.

And that is presently where it sits. I would love love LOVE love to own an Andy Warhol art piece one day, and who knows, maybe that can become possible. In the meantime, any little pieces of art or trinkets or bits of things that I can find to add to my Andy Warhol collection, they will be added below. He has created a few films that exist on DVD in the past, so perhaps a copy of those will show up here one day. Only time will tell.

A little tiny inch and a half tall Brillo pad box made from printed paper and thin cardboard with a slightly open lid, sitting in the palm of Kabutroid's hand.

Ok. Ok ok ok ok, I have WAY too little Andy Warhol memorabilia, especially after having just made these fangirl pages, and like... yeah, I mentioned that the graphical biography is *in* there sorta, it's not really visible per-se, it isn't a focus. And presently, the art print book is off to the side elsewhere, where it can presently fit. The display needed something of Andy, it felt... missing a piece.

So... well, I've been seeing these offers online to enter a draw to win a commemorative pressing/print of a flat, unassembled Brillo box, and while I'd love to have one, I do not have the £600 to £2000 pounds needed to buy one, IF I won the draw to begin with. But y'know what I can do, I can print that unassembled box, cut it out, double-sided-tape cardboard to the back of it for stability, and glue it together into a formed box! And I could have sealed the lid, but... I dunno, let's keep that open so I could store something in there maybe, I like that. So lil tiny Brillo box added to the display.