Crowd (Where's Warhol)

Warhol’s 1963 silkscreen print, Crowd, is based on a 1955 newswire photograph taken of St. Peter’s Square in Rome on Easter Sunday. Andy printed it in quadrants as if he wanted it to magically repeat, so Flavor Paper founder Jon Sherman decided to dig up the original source image, build a repeat, and then created a half tone similar to Andy’s version. Jon decided to add an image of Andy shot on set of Chelsea Girls where he was wearing a striped shirt similar to Waldo to create a wallpaper game of Where’s Warhol. The ebb and flow of the crowd reads like a tree canopy from afar, creating one experience when first viewed followed by a revelation upon closer inspection when the people are recognized.

Our Gold colorway is an ethereal, divine wallpaper with a shimmering pearl gold ink handscreened onto a matte ivory clay coated paper. The highs and lows of the golden tones are always evolving dynamically based on lighting and viewing angle.

Andy Warhol was a leading figure in the pop art movement of the 1960s and is considered one of the most important artists of the late 20th Century. The Andy Warhol x Flavor Paper Collection represents our interpretations of Warhol's work—some iconic and others handpicked from deep in the artist's archives—released in a globally exclusive partnership with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, which has been ongoing since 2013.

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