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Dimensions. composition and sheet (each): 36 x 36" (91.5 x 91.5 cm) Publisher. Factory Additions, New York. Printer. Aetna Silkscreen Products, Inc., New York. Edition. 250. Credit. Gift of Mr. David Whitney. Object number. 70.1968.1-10. Copyright. © 2024 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual. Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Type.
Andy Warhol made his original Marilyn Monroe painting in 1962. The actress died on 5 August 1962 after taking an overdose of sleeping pills. The news of her death inspired Warhol to create his first Marilyn silkscreen paintings later that month. He went on to make at least 23 Marilyn paintings before the end of the year.
- An Introduction to Andy Warhol
- Marilyn Diptych
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Andy Warhol was obsessed with fame, commercial society, and mechanical replication, and was responsible for creating some of the previous century’s most memorable imagery. In his most renowned artworks, he borrowed heavily from mainstream culture and commonplace subject matter, such as Brillo Box sculptures, Campbell’s soup cans, and portraits of E...
In 1962, Warhol grew enamored with silk screen printing. This approach would become his most defining style: it was easy, and fast, and allowed him to make little changes to the same image repeatedly. “The rubber-stamp approach I’d been using to replicate pictures suddenly looked too amateurish; I needed something bolder, more assembly-line-like”, ...
Warhol is recognized as an artist notorious for visual appropriation, and he frequently used press shots and publicly accessible photographs and designs that he did not own, which frequently led to a confrontation with the proprietors of the original material. The prints of Marilyn Monroe painting by Andy Warhol are an example and culminated in a s...
After selling for $195 million in less than four minutes at auction in New York, Andy Warhol’s 1964 silk-screen Marilyn Monroe print, Shot Sage Blue Marilyn, became the most valuable work of 20th-century art ever auctioned. It is also the costliest painting ever sold at auction by an American painter. In 2017, a skull artwork by Jean-Michel Basquia...
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Gold Marilyn Monroe is a screenprint painting by Andy Warhol based on a photograph of the actress Marilyn Monroe 's face centered on a large (6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) x 4 ft 9 in (1.45 m)) gold-painted canvas. [1] [2] Warhol used silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas. It was completed in 1962, the same year as Monroe's death. [3] .
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Dimensions. 205.44 cm × 289.56 cm (80.88 in × 114.00 in) Location. Tate, London. The Marilyn Diptych ( 1962) is a silkscreen painting by American pop artist Andy Warhol depicting Marilyn Monroe. The monumental work is one of the artist's most noted of the movie star. The painting consists of 50 images. [2]
Dimensions: Sheet: 6 x 6 in. (15.2 x 15.2 cm) Classification: Prints. Credit Line: Gift of Factory Additions, 1967. Accession Number: 67.855.
Dec 6, 2023 · Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Diptych is made of two silver canvases on which the artist silkscreened a photograph of Marilyn Monroe fifty times. At first glance, the work—which explicitly references a form of Christian painting (see below) in its title—invites us to worship the legendary icon, whose image Warhol plucked from popular culture and ...
