Wowaweewa! Would you just look at that! Golly! Gosh! Remember when Andy Warhol painted Debbie Harry on an Amiga at the Commodore Amiga product launch press conference in 1985? That wasn’t the only artwork he produced on a PC, but it was assumed that the images were lost, until now.

The Andy Warhol Museum has recovered a set of images, doodles, and photos created by the seminal pop artist on a Commodore Amiga home computer. The artworks, made by Warhol as part of a collaboration with Commodore Amiga, had been stranded on Amiga floppy disks for almost twenty years after the artist saved them in the mid-1980s. They were only discovered and rescued from their obsolete format thanks to the chance viewing of a YouTube clip.

The images they found include doodles, photographs, and experiments with Warhol’s existing artworks. One image is a crude recreation of his world-famous Campbell’s soup can, its proportions skewed and its colors drawn in scratchy, MS Paint-esque lines. Another piece is a three-eyed doodle on a pre-rendered version of Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus.

The video that inspired Arcangel and others to look for Warhol’s forgotten Amiga experiments is a strange juxtaposition of old and new, an artist that defined the 1960s face-to-face with the new technology of the fast-moving 1980s.

Check out the pics, below.

[Source : The Verge]