ARTIST TO ARTIST: TRETORN VS. ANDY WARHOL

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Andy Warhol: Camouflage, Berlin's Museum for Contemporay Art

Andy Warhol: Self Portrait

Andy Warhol made Self-portrait a few months before his death, which was in February 1987. 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art describes the image: "Warhol appears as a haunting, disembodied mask. His head floats in a dark black void and his face and hair are ghostly pale, covered in a militaristic camouflage pattern of green, gray, and black."

There is a contrast between the impersonality of the camouflage pattern, which hints at danger, and the personality of the portrait tradition, where there is direct contact with the viewer, although in this case with a protective illusory covering. The ambiguous uses of camouflage—drawing attention when a fashionable look and doing the opposite in military use—fascinated Warhol.

Andy Warhol: Camouflage 1987

TRETORN - SOFIERO

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DETAILS: Two-tone olive green slip-on rubber boots with tan traction rubber sole with 1 inch heel, contrasting red stripe detail at midsole, and 14 inch shaft with decorative lace-up detail and reflective band around opening. Fleece lined. Comes with red and green laces.

SIZES: 37,38,39,40,41

$155

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