Pisanki, Andy Warhol, and the Atomic Bomb.

Famed American artist Andy Warhol, Pisanki (also spelled Pisanky), and the atomic bomb, don’t seem like they belong in the same sentence together. However It seems Andy Warhol’s mother, who had a big influence on his artistic talents, decorated eggs in the Pisanki style during Easter time in Ukraine.

According to Raymond M. Herbenick, these decorations apparently had an affect on some of Warhol’s work, who sees in Warhol’s 1965 Atomic Bomb “…a series of mushroom clouds, the pattern being similar to mushrooms or wheat sheaves drawn on pysanky.”

I don’t see it, but then again, I’m no art critic.

Now maybe there, I can see a connection!

Tags: Atomic Bomb, Easter, Eggs, Pisanki, Pisanky, Warhol

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