Why did Andy Warhol use silkscreen printing?
Silkscreen was perfect because it was like advertising. It’s a mechanical process, so you can make a lot of prints. It makes the art feel less like a unique object and more like something you’d see in a magazine or on a billboard. It’s about mass production, like the products I was painting. It’s about getting the image out there, again and again.
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