Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger is the lead singer in British rock and roll band The Rolling Stones. He is depicted here bare-chested, playing up to Warhol’s camera. Warhol particularly liked Jagger’s photogenic, ‘bad boy’ image and this work is part of a portfolio of ten screen prints of the star produced in 1975. He has incorporated blocks of irregularly shaped color, which, although printed, appear like collaged fragments of colored paper, In combing this with hand-drawn elements (also printed), the works appear more expressive than his earlier screen prints. The abracts quality of the blocks in color shows the development of Warhol’s interest in more non-representational art that was emerging in the 1970’s.