Art 101 - The Two Interpretations of Warhol - Two Films

In both films THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ANDY WARHOL SUPERSTAR, by Chuck Workman and
ANDY WARHOL, by Artists of the 20th Century, Kultur International Flims, Warhol's "car crashes" piece of work is described as a peak into the mind of the artist himself. While the ANDY WARHOL film interprets the work as Warhol's obsession with the dynamics of life and death, the film THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ANDY WARHOL SUPERSTAR interprets the crash scenes as Warhol's metaphors for the rise in violence in America. As with most of his works, this print is a snapshot of history, a moment in time, which happens to be during the 1960s as violence in America was escalating.