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Why did Andy Warhol paint Marilyn Monroe?
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Andy Warhol painted Marilyn Monroe as a commentary on the media and celebrity culture. The American artist was quick to jump on mass media’s penchant for treating glamour and tragedy with equal weight. Monroe’s suicidal overdose in 1962 was ideal fodder, and he reproduced her visage dozens of times, first painting the canvas with splotches of pigment to denote her hair, eyeshadow and lips, then printing the black photographic silkscreen, taken from a 1953 publicity still, on the surface, either alone, doubled or repeated in a grid. By reproducing her image, Warhol sought to show how Monroe's fame and status as a sex symbol transformed her from being an individual person to a mass-market commodity. His work provided a sharp rebuke to the media's obsessive intrusion into the lives of celebrities. On 1stDibs, shop a selection of Andy Warhol art.
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Gelatin silver print of Victor Hugo and Male Model by Andy Warhol
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance.
Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also on verso.
Pro...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ladies and Gentlemen - Screenprint by Andy Warhol - 1975
By Andy Warhol
Located in Roma, IT
Ladies and Gentlemen is a colored screen print realized in 1975 by the Pop artist Andy Warhol.
Mixed colored screenprint
Reference: Feldman-Schellmann, II.127.
Signature and edit...
Category
1970s Pop Art Portrait Prints
Materials
Screen
Greta Garbo as Mata Hari - Lithograph by Andy Warhol - 1981
By Andy Warhol
Located in Roma, IT
Greta Garbo as Mata Hari is a contemporary artwork realized by Andy Warhol in 1981.
Offset and color lithograph.
Includes frame: 104,5 x 86 x 3 cm.
Hand signed on the lower right....
Category
1980s Pop Art Portrait Prints
Materials
Offset, Lithograph
Mao - Screenprint by Andy Warhol - 1974
By Andy Warhol
Located in Roma, IT
Mao is a contemporary artwork realized by Andy Warhol in 1974.
Colour screenprint on wallpaper.
Includes frame: 113 x 86 x 3 cm
Hand signed by lower left.
Prov. Galerie Vayhinger...
Category
1970s Pop Art Portrait Prints
Materials
Screen
The philosophy of Andy Warhol
By Andy Warhol
Located in Jerusalem, IL
A book by Andy Warhol. Signed and sketched by the artist on the first page of the book.
Signed on the bottom of the first page.
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Aga...
Category
1970s Pop Art More Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Permanent Marker
The Lion, 1975, Andy Warhol, Color lithograph, Animal, Lion
By Andy Warhol
Located in Milano, IT
Fotolitografia originale su carta facente parte dell'opera in edizione originale di Andy Warhol "THE LION" espressamente eseguita per la serie "LO ZODIACO/The Zodiac" per "BOLAFFI AR...
Category
1970s Pop Art Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph