Andy Warhol Visit: Artwork #4

One of the largest and thought provoking pieces displayed at The Andy Warhol Museum, is Warhol's very well-known piece, Silver Clouds 1966.  This artwork consists of a room filled with large, silver helium-filled balloons, which float around the room, touching the viewer, enabling them to affect the artwork itself.  The piece is truly spectacular, because it provides not merely an incredible spectacle, but also a unique experience for the viewer to partake in.  The viewer experiences a carefree, epheremeral and dynamic sensation, one in which it is certain Warhol intended for.  The balloons are constantly changing, due to the presence of air flow in the room, therefore their positions are never the same, they are everchanging.  This is like the existence of actual clouds, which move, float, and change according to the wind.  Warhol mixes this realistic sense of clouds, with the fake, shiny, commerical material in which they are made of.  Therefore creating a truly unique piece of almost paradoxical art.