Brillo Boxes
Andy Warhol, American, 1928 - 1987
Date:
1964Medium:
Screenprint and ink on woodDimensions:
Each: 17 x 17 x 14 inches (43.2 x 43.2 x 35.6 cm)Copyright:
© Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Curatorial Department:
Contemporary ArtObject Location:
1994-79-1--3Credit Line:
Acquired with funds contributed by the Committee on Twentieth-Century Art and as a partial gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., 1994
1964Medium:
Screenprint and ink on woodDimensions:
Each: 17 x 17 x 14 inches (43.2 x 43.2 x 35.6 cm)Copyright:
© Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Curatorial Department:
Contemporary ArtObject Location:
Currently not on view
Accession Number:1994-79-1--3Credit Line:
Acquired with funds contributed by the Committee on Twentieth-Century Art and as a partial gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., 1994
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Andy Warhol’s Brillo Boxes are precise copies of commercial packaging. While they fulfill the idea that art should imitate life, they also raise questions about how we identify and value something as art. If Warhol transformed a mundane commercial product into a work of art, how did that transformation happen? Considering Warhol made numerous Brillo Boxes and sold them to art collectors and museums, his can also be considered mass-produced consumer goods.
