Andy Warhol

ANDY WARHOL (Pittsburgh 1928 - New York 1987)
"Mick Jagger," 1975.
Promotional card for the Mick Jager series.
Bibliography: Schellman-Feldman II, 138.
Publisher: Castelli Graphics.
Features justification for the print run announcement.
Signed.
Measurements: 15.5 x 10 cm; 18 x 13 cm (methacrylate).
Andy Warhol approached the figure of Mick Jagger as an absolute icon of his time. This promotional card from the Mick Jagger series, made in 1975, is at the heart of that research: the transformation of the musician into a reproducible, desirable and recognizable image on a global scale.
Warhol portrays Jagger by fragmenting his face and emphasizing his most expressive features through the characteristic use of silkscreen and flat color. Although conceived as promotional material, the card fully participates in the artist's visual language, where repetition, seriality and the circulation of the image form an essential part of the work.
The Mick Jagger series marks a key moment in the artist's production, consolidating his interest in rock stars as modern heirs to aristocratic portraiture. Jagger appears not only as an individual, but also as a symbol: a face turned into a brand, an aesthetic surface and a cultural product. Warhol does not seek to delve psychologically into the character, but to capture his iconic power and his capacity for media seduction.
More than four decades after its creation, this piece retains intact its visual strength and cultural relevance. Testimony to an emblematic collaboration between art and music, it embodies Warhol's ability to anticipate a world dominated by image, celebrity and infinite reproduction.