At first glance of this work, I simply thought "Why?". The color yellow represents warmth, brightness, joy, happiness...ect. In contrast, electric chairs represent death, despair, and dread. So how are yellow and electric chairs related?
Is Warhol suggesting that in death, there is joy? Maybe. But to get to the electric chair, one must bring misery and pain to another...once again contrasting with the joy of yellow.
Later, I noticed that the chair was unplugged. So could this symbolize the fact that we are moving further away from this method of execution? And the yellow represents the happiness over the death of legal electrocution.
But then again, this could represent an electric chair used in Alabama, affectionately nicknamed Yellow Mama because of its yellow paint coating. So many possibilities so who really knows?
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