d down own the colums. The image Warhol used was of a room. A door in the back of the room on the right side has a sign over it which reads “silence.” On the left side, in back, a rectangular coloum rises up and out of view. In the middle of both the room and the image itself is a rectangular mat. This mat is placed on the floor in alignment with the room, meaning that the mat’s back edge runs along the same angle as the room’s back wall and so on. Placed on this mat is an empty electric chair which is also calibrated with the rooms walls and mat.The simularities that exist between these compositions comes from the artists’ techniques used and the meaning behind it. First, both Seated Woman and Lavender Disaster have a rushed, unfinished sense to them. Segal’s plaster figure has very little detail, and the surface is rough textured and bumpy. You get a feeling of detachment from her. Warhol’s piece contains many imperfictly aligned prints made by an impersonal screening process. He also did nothing to cover up smeared prints or other mistakes. All of these traits suggest anonymity....
