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Description:
bust portrait of smiling Nixon in suit and tie with green face

Label Text:
Created the same year as his famous images of the Chinese leader Mao Tse-Tsung (which were also incongruously and brightly colored), Warhol's Vote McGovern was made explicitly to be sold to benefit the presidential candidacy of George McGovern. The sloppy printing style of the work, coupled with the garish colors, makes the image of Richard Nixon seem both laughable and sinister. This image seems to tap perfectly into what art critic Arthur C. Danto has called Warhol's "'gift:' . . .his ability to make objective as art the defining images of the American consciousness-the images that expressed our desires, our fears, and what we as a commonality trusted and mistrusted."

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