THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Susan Hodara
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| “Robert Mapplethorpe,” Warhol Credit The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., via Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
CONNECTICUT---On a small wall in “Warhol & Mapplethorpe: Guise & Dolls,” at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, a photographic portrait of Andy Warhol by Robert Mapplethorpe hangs beside a silk-screened portrait of
Robert Mapplethorpe by
Andy Warhol. Both are head shots; both men gaze directly at the viewer. Mapplethorpe placed Warhol’s face in the center of a cruciform frame and encircled his head with a saintly glow, while Warhol saturated Mapplethorpe’s image in a deep, devilish red. [
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Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: “Warhol & Mapplethorpe: Guise & Dolls” (Ends January 24, 2016); 600 Main Street, Hartford, CT.; wadsworthatheneum.org; 860-278-2670.
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| “Andy Warhol,” Robert Mapplethorpe Credit Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation |
