Watercolor Paint Kit, Lithograph on Carnival Felt Cover paper, 1982; Signed Andy Warhol in black felt pen, lower right and numbered 284/500 in pencil, lower left; Framed using two acid-free mats, the original green painted wood exterior frame and Museum Image Perfect UV protective glass.
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"Watercolor Paint Kit" is a wonderful example of Warhol's satirical response to abstract expressionism and a nod to his contemporary pop artist, Roy Lichtenstein. Pop Art, which arose in the early 1960's, was the idea of using everyday popular culture objects, people, etc. as subject matter. It was also a revolt against the need to show splatters or brushstrokes, that were a staple of the expressionistic wing of the abstract expressionist movement of the 1940's. Late 1950's and early 1960's works by Warhol showed splatters on his flat pop imagery in order to pay homage to Pollock and de Kooning; however, those tributes to the past were quickly discarded in favor of much cleaner compositions. In fact, Warhol would quickly go the opposite direction by making every attempt to eliminate all surface brushstrokes, which lead him directly to silkscreening.
In 1965 Roy Lichtenstein had already produced paintings of large brushstrokes as subject matter and in the above work, Warhol goes even further by making the subject matter the actual supplies used to make art. The idea is a painting of the supplies used to make a painting, in this case an open watercolor kit with brushes and the dried colored pigment discs. The French artist Arman would produce similar works when he suspended paintbrushes and the brushstroke created by them into a sculptural acrylic block.
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