Vote McGovern, also known as Vote McGovern, 1972, [1] is a 1972 colored lithograph by Andy Warhol. He produced it in support of George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign. The print doesn't depict McGovern, but instead is a depiction of a photograph of then-President of the United States Richard Nixon with his face dyed green and blue, and with his jacket and tie dyed pink and red, respectively. [2] Nixon was the Republican and McGovern the Democrats' candidate in the 1972 United States presidential election.
It was Warhol's first political poster [3] and has been described as Warhol's "most overtly political work". [2] The photograph of Nixon on which the print is based was taken from a photograph of him and his wife Pat Nixon on the cover of Newsweek ; Warhol chose the colors used to dye Nixon's face based on those of Mrs. Nixon's dress. [3] Art critic Jonathan Jones described the print as follows: "Nixon's face is acidic green, colliding shockingly with an orange background, almost like classical Indian art in its chromatic intensity. It captures the way Nixon in the flesh looked like a cartoon, his head too big for his body. But that's all in the way of satire." [4] In 2016, it was featured in a printmaking exhibition at the British Museum. [3]
