Visual Metaphors

After attending the Andy Warhol exhibit at the Tucson Museum of art I started to think about visual metaphors in his work. Most of Warhol’s commercial work contains visual metaphors in someway or another. The Campbell’s soup series, and other reproductions of celebrities’ covey his message of commercializing the commercial. However I decided to discuss the images that were most meaningful to me.

I found the message in his endangered species series most interesting to me:




















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Epitomizing endangered species on such a scale while placing them together in a series, with an abundant use of color Warhol visualized the plight of the animals. He gave the animals a voice and a context by presenting them in that way. Not only did it provoke thought the metaphor he conveyed in the images (among other messages) was that there is beauty in rarity.