Andy Warhol's Athletes At Springfield Art Museum
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Andy Warhol's Athletes At Springfield Art Museum
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SPRINGFIELD.- Andy Warhol’s Athletes, Portraits from the Richard Weisman Collection. In 1977, Richard Weisman commissioned his friend Andy Warhol to do a series of ten portraits of the world’s most famous athletes. The commission was inspired by Weisman’s belief that the two most popular leisure time activities - art and sports - should be brought together.

“The works, part of a series of eight sets of portraits of these 10 people, are all in a 40-inch by 40-inch format, featuring bright, saturated color laid over appealing black-and-white images of the subjects. Appealing, that is, except for O.J. Simpson, who looks strangely sinister and criminal. Weisman, in his book ‘Picasso to Pop,’ explains that Simpson had grown a beard for a movie he was making at the time, which is why he looks the way he does. Still, knowing what has happened since Warhol created these portraits, Simpson does come across as positively creepy while everyone else looks clean cut and appealing”, wrote Camille Howell for the News-Leader.

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