Culture
Andy Warhol at the Hugh Lane: the magnetism of monotony
The most compelling thing about the exhibition Three Times Out is the visual impact of Warhol’s repetitive ideology
“I like things to be exactly the same over and over again,” was the aesthetic philosophy by which Andy Warhol defined his work. If this ideology of sameness runs counter to the general cultural understanding of art and creativity, it did Warhol no harm.
Coming into his artistic height in the 1960s – an age of cultural, political and sexual revolution engendered by the economic and technological boom of the post-war era – the depthless ...