Warholsaurus – WACKYSAURS Goes Pop
Silkscreen prints, university project

Warholsaurus is the graphic mutation of my sculptural series WACKYSAURS, reimagined through the visual vocabulary of Andy Warhol. In this series, I embrace the Pop Art master’s obsession with repetition, color inversion, and cultural iconography—but instead of celebrities, I elevate my absurd, lumpy dinosaurs to stardom.

The prints feature high-contrast, duotone portraits of the Wackysaur heads—zoomed in on their warped, goofy expressions with bulging eyes and oversized tongues. Each print is a burst of clashing colors: fluorescent pinks, neon yellows, deep purples, and bold blacks that pay direct homage to Warhol’s silkscreen palette. The unnatural colors flatten the form while exaggerating their personality, transforming them into pop icons of prehistoric weirdness.

Just like Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup cans or Marilyns, Warholsaurus plays with mass production and repetition. The dinosaurs are printed in a tight grid, echoing Warhol’s iconic layouts, but they remain imperfect—slightly offset, slightly altered—reminding the viewer that behind the mechanical look, there’s still a handmade chaos.

This project was both a graphic exercise and a conceptual one: it asks, “What happens when you take something clumsy and silly, and treat it like high art?” In my case, a toy dinosaur becomes a cultural symbol—not of fame or consumerism, but of joy, humor, and childhood nostalgia. Warholsaurus is Pop Art with teeth (and tongue).