Notes on the flagship print “F.B. #0000FF” and Andy Warhol’s “Flowers” series

August 12, 2025

F.B. #0000FF (Flagship Print @TheFlowerShop.Art)

I’m drawn to flowers because they’re a powerful expression of the cycles of life, death, and regeneration. 

The print F.B. #0000FF is an offering—a 2D(ish) image of a hand giving the viewer a bouquet of four flowers illuminated by internet blue. 

The four hibiscus flowers in this image are inspired by Andy Warhol’s iconic Flowers series. His series appropriates a photo of hibiscus flowers taken by  Patricia Caulfield for a 1964 issue of Modern Photography magazine. Using his signature silkscreen technique, Warhol printed the images on canvas, after manipulating the intensity of the contrast, which created a flatness effect to the image. He created approximately 81 works throughout the life of this series and exhibited the first set of canvases in 1964 at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City. 

Andy Warhol was a titan of Pop Art—an art movement that proliferated in the United States from the late 1950s to early 1970s. The movement was largely a reaction to Abstract Expressionism and traditional approaches to art making. Pop artists’ created works inspired by advertising, consumer products and pop culture at-large. 

The print F.B. #0000FF is a symbol that expresses a finite human moment in time flattened into a glyph that carries forward into the infinite continuum of time.

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