Andy Warhol. Printmaker, Film Maker & Painter. He had a heavy and influential part in the Pop Art revolution in the 60’s. He is primarily known for his repetitive style of repeating an object / image several times but changing the colour range of each. The Warhol image of Marilyn Monroe is one of the most over used images of the art world. It is a screen print based on the original work of Gene Korman originally deriving from a promotional image for a film she starred in. Using his style, the work is rather dry & repetitive and could be described as reading 3 or 4 newspapers all from the same day, telling you the same stories just in a slightly different way. Each image in warhols ‘grid’ format, using slightly different colours for each of the images which doesn’t really help make this work anymore visually stimulating to me. Warhol was known for having abit of an attachment to his subject, in this instance, and as such, she became the inspiration for several pieces of his work. There is no doubt that Warhol dramatically impacted on Monroes career through his work, in a highly positive way, and is why even younger people are aware of who Monroe is and have seen the Warol prints of her. I don’t personally feel as though the work has anything to say, although I’m sure you can pull meaning from it. You could say that Warhol put Marilyn on a pedastal and raised her up even further into the public eye, continuing to do so decades after her death.
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