Marilyn monroe andy warhol when was it painted

Marilyn Monroe was and still remains one of the biggest sex symbols of all 7 time. When she was alive, her personal life was more interesting than her professional one.

She had already been married several times. Like many of her fans, Warhol had become fascinated by the idea of popular figures such as Monroe who lived unimaginably glamorous lifestyles and who had attained an almost mythical status as Hollywood icons.

It was pure coincidence that Warhol chose Monroe to feature in his earliest and possibly most famous works of pop art. Although she had already ended her life at the time of the painting, her face and her fame provided Warhol with an excellent basis for his repetitive print and animation-like work in the future.

Warhol even considered retiring from painting 8 altogether. For his Marilyn portrait, Warhol portrayed the famous movie star from a publicity photograph that he knew almost nobody would recognize from the Movie Niagara, which was released in , rather than draw an image of her face or paint it. In his Marilyn Monroe series, contrary to normal expectations, Warhol created the Monroe diptych by painting the canvas first using different colors 9 before he screened the now-famous image of Marilyn on top of the canvas.

The misregistration of the screen-print and painting resulted in a dynamic surface that he then enhanced using a spectrum of colors. This act of printing and painting in several variations allowed Warhol to play and explore the range of graphic possibilities that that single image of Marilyn could produce. Warhol demonstrated his extraordinary use of color by adding day-glow colors and metallic paints that were not commonly found in contemporary art, which further helped it stand out.

The five rows of the diptych resemble the movielike strips that acknowledge her status as an icon. The repetition of her image symbolized mass production, while the diptych style used in the portrait was inspired by the Byzantine icons of Christian saints.

Although deeply fascinated by their professional lives, Warhol was also just as interested in the struggles and suffering these women endured behind their painted-on smiles. Case in point, Warhol painted Marilyn just two weeks after she had committed suicide. In his other piece, Liz Taylor was created when she was gravely ill Warhol was fascinated with morbid concepts.

Sometimes, however, the results are astonishingly beautiful, such as the resonating, brilliantly colored images of Marilyn Monroe. In August 62 I started doing silkscreens. I wanted something stronger that gave more of an assembly line effect.

With silkscreening you pick a photograph, blow it up, transfer it in glue onto silk, and then roll ink across it so the ink goes through the silk but not through the glue. That way you get the same image, slightly different each time. It was all so simple quick and chancy. As part of the Met's Open Access policy , you can freely copy, modify and distribute this image, even for commercial purposes. Title: Marilyn. Printer: Aetna Silkscreen Products, Inc.

Printer: Du-Art Displays. Publisher: Factory Additions. Date: Medium: Screenprint. Dimensions: Sheet: 6 x 6 in. Classification: Prints. Credit Line: Gift of Factory Additions, Accession Number: Visiting The Met? Marilyn