

I wanted something stronger that gave more of an assembly-line effect” (Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett POPism: The Warhol 60s When did Andy Warhol use Screen Printing? The rubber-stamp method I’d been using to repeat images suddenly seemed too homemade. “In August of 62, I started doing Silkscreens. This corresponded to an often expressed wish of Andy’s …to be a machine. At the time Andy Warhol was surging in popularity as a leader in the Pop Art movement some people would refer to the Screen Printing device as a machine. Silk Screening just matched Warhol’s sensibilities. It wasn’t easier which Warhol would claim throughout his career.

In using other people’s work and expanding upon their original concept. Warhol’s key concept as an artist was the “industrialization” of art.
