" "Electric Chair" is squarely of the present, in harsh, artificial pinks and yellows. It is pure pop art, without sympathy for the victim or for any ideology that condemns capital punishment. Not only is there no hope, as voiced in "Saint Perpetuum," there is also no regret, any emotion, and only silkscreened blankness. If Warhol's work is political, it is not political in a way that opposes capital punishment. Rather it reflects coolly and ironically upon the place of violence in the American penal system, and its acceptance of the electric chair as an instrument of justice. Even death, if it...

The work is without a position, without emotion, almost drained of humanity, like the nature of the punishment it depicts.
Works Cited

Findlay, Karen. "The Eyes of Condoleezza Rice." http://www.alexandergray.com/images/thumbs/My_Eyes_Have_Seen_the_Glory.jpg

Hsiung, Pearl C. "Saint Perpetuum." http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://pearlchsiung.com/Pearl_C_Hsiung/St_Perpetuum_files/pch_saint_perpetuum_web.jpg&imgrefurl=http://pearlchsiung.com/Pearl_C_Hsiung/St_Perpetuum.html&h=553&w=410&sz=71&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=2ndzkEI6ncN3HM:&tbnh=133&tbnw=99&prev=/images%3Fq%3DSaint%2BPerpetuum%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den

Warhol, Andy. "Electric Chair." http://www.warholprints.com/cgi-bin/Warhol.Andy/gallery.cgi?category=Warhol.E.P&item=FS-II.82&type=gallery