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

Although we are used to consuming Andy Warhol’s iconic images in their singular form, they were conceived to be displayed serially

“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 ...