Andy Warhol Visit: Artwork #3

Andy Warhol's artwork, Self-Portrait 1986, is a typical Warhol creation, it is provocative, paradoxical and abstract.  Warhol presents his own image in this piece, yet he depicts it unrealistically.  The color fades in and out, therefore the viewer only gets fragments of Warhol's image, Warhol is playing with what he reveals and what he keeps hidden.  This theme is also reiterated in the pattern splayed across Warhol's face.  Camouflage is added to the picture, thus giving the viewer a sense that Warhol is attempting to blend in, to hide, to conceal.  Perhaps Warhol is trying to cloak his aging wrinkles, his sagging cheeks, or the assymetry of his face.  The viewer is not sure, yet the theme of keeping something hidden is very clear in this piece of artwork.