Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol's work, to me, consisted of 3 main ideas. He played with the concepts of fame, the media and death.
For example, the portrait of Marilyn Monroe were done in the months following her suicide. The portraits of Jackie Kennedy Onasis, following JFK's assassination. Although these paintings are portraits, they can also slip into Warhol's 'Death and Destruction' series, in which he explores anonymous suicides, that give the person their 15 minutes of fame
The electric chair images are also included in this series, however are different from the other pieces because there are no representations of people in the images. for my comparison, i chose to do the picture of the car crash vs. the coca cola drawing

The car crash is quite a disturbing image, as it has the image of a burning car, a person hanging from a telegraph pole, and a pedestrian who seems very numb to the whole ordeal in the background. Perhaps Warhol was trying to make the point that the media is so centered around death and terrible events, that we have become desensitized. In contrast, Warhols many drawings of the Coca Cola label (specifically the one at the very entrance to the exhibit) explore the idea of mass marketing. He manipulated his art into becoming a mass produced item in mockery of real life mass production- aka the Coca Cola bottle and various other objects.