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500 Warhollars

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by Webbins
After watching a program about Warhols use of sweatshop artists to replicate his work & his dubious way of duplicating his work to use as currency, I came up with this, the $500 Warhollar bill. Cynical, moi?
zimfreak
zimfreak on Jan 31 '06
Not on yellow.
andywarholsucks
andywarholsucks on Jan 31 '06
i like that the idea is bashing him (duh) but the shirt just looks like a tribute.



but yeah, not on yellow.
Robsoul
   Robsoul on Jan 31 '06
this shirt is bashing him... I don't see that, whatever



I just think it classic because I could see him doing something like this too. It would be nice to have some of the shirt color coming through aswell into the note, no matter what shirt color you use... maybe even on natural like it was a canvas

LaBing
LaBing on Jan 31 '06
I ilike the idea but why $500? If Andy actually did this he would probably do a $1 since you see those more often and there are probably more $1 bills printed and in circulation. How often does anyone see a $500 bill. His whole thing was the over saturation of seeing something over and over again like Campbells soup cans.
Thickblueink
Thickblueink on Jan 31 '06
too bad i have nothing witty to say

four marilyns
atticus_jen
atticus_jen on Jan 31 '06
i agree with LaBing...one dollar...it would also make it look like less of a tribute ... because that was my first impression
im_not_jane
im_not_jane on Jan 31 '06
I like it on the yellow, it makes worhol look more garish.
DraftDodger
DraftDodger on Jan 31 '06
uggggggggh
inayellowsub
inayellowsub on Jan 31 '06
hahahaa this shirt is so NOT bashing andy.

if anything

its just magnifying his coolness.

no 500 dollar bills. 1 dollar.

Pukagurl
Pukagurl on Jan 31 '06
I agree the shirt looks like a tribute.
heartxgoesxhere
heartxgoesxhere on Jan 31 '06
heck yes on yellow! i like it , a lot.. tribute or not.
shadowlemur
shadowlemur on Jan 31 '06
Just a small detail, but you may want to change the "McKinley" under the portrait of Warhol to "Warhol"



Yellow sucks, like someone's canvas idea



Don't care about the amount
NW Fast
NW Fast on Jan 31 '06
Ehhh.
Webbins
Webbins on Feb 01 '06
Let me explain, 500 bill because Warhol used to duplicate his work & use it as currency, in fact he acquired the equivalent today of $60,000 of VT equipment with one piece, but if I'd made a $60,000 you lot would have been even more ??????. OK bout the yellow, not everyones fruit biscuit, I did put this up for critique as a blog but I got like 1 comment so what can I do?
KatieTheMofo
KatieTheMofo on Feb 01 '06
I don't like how it looks all Live Trace-ish, whether it was or not.



Eh, I like the concept, but it's just not something I can see working on a shirt.
vulcanhalfbreed
vulcanhalfbreed on Feb 01 '06
Haha love it
cadjockey
cadjockey on Feb 02 '06
Lichtenstein painted a dollar bill in 1956, six years before Wahol.

There was also another artist (whos name eludes me) that used to

paint 100dollar bills and use them to pay for dinner and take the

change he would have got if it were a real currency note.



None of them were the first and they won't be the last!



I think you should have gone for more realistic colours and thus

more subtle. It looks a bit like a statement on the purchasing

power of the gay community being pink!
cvoltaire84
cvoltaire84 on Feb 02 '06
DIFFERENT COLORS
tRaSH_PaRADiSE
tRaSH_PaRADiSE on Feb 02 '06
is this supposed to be "cool"?
milkyretina
milkyretina on Feb 03 '06
andy's a far better colorist though
notta_plane_jane_108
notta_plane_jane_108 on Feb 04 '06
i really like this because im a pop art fan freak. 5$. cookie for you.
m-oo
m-oo on Feb 04 '06
It doesn't matter to me that it looks Live Trace-ish. But, it does look more like a tribute. Then again, if you're just trying to sell the shirt, it doesn't matter what you were expressing about Warhol.



No yellow.



Nice design.
mle82
mle82 on Feb 04 '06
yellow is gross. but other than that i like it.
PolkaDotsandSodaPop
PolkaDotsandSodaPop on Feb 04 '06
A M A Z I N G

I love Andy Warhol

this rox

alot

but, as many others, I'm really aprehensive about the yellow... it's a hard colour for me to wear, maybe in pink?
ashleymettey duh
ashleymettey duh on Feb 05 '06
I don't really like the colors; at all.
dryuglyscab
dryuglyscab on Feb 05 '06


the colors finely fit the world of pop art. you just clearly disguised this as another pop art piece. man this is just irony here. you bash andy with pop art while andy bashed the world with his pop art. but the design's pretty swell and so's the color.
d.profound
d.profound on Feb 05 '06
Pretty neat. The wacky color combo is so Warhol.
soylamorsa
soylamorsa on Feb 06 '06
I don't love the yellow, but I'd buy it anyway because I'm a Warhol-fiend....So yeah. $5
chino41
chino41 on Feb 07 '06
Yellow Yellow Yellow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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