Pop Art: Turquoise Marilyn Monroe By Andy Warhol

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Description The artwork is called Turquoise Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol in 1964. Andy Warhol was a innovator of the visual art movement known as Pop art, which is a challenge to the traditional fine art that includes popular culture images, and known for hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music. This art work was made to show the remembrance of a famous celebrity, name Marilyn Monroe which committed suicide in 1962. This artwork was replicated from a magazine still by using silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas. One of the aims in this period is to use images that are popular (Marilyn Monroe) and cultures in art and was a major shift from the modernism direction. It is also Marilyn Monroe’s curvy hair and her tendency to close her eyes has created a movement in the drawing. It also shows harmony by using cartoon like style and the same colour in the background and her eyelid, but in the same time, the colour is contrasting such as her lips, hair and the background colour, also the dark and bold outline helps the portrait to stand out from the background. With the variety of different colours, it emphasis the subject matter in the portrait which is Marilyn. Although Marilyn looks to her right in the portrait, her hair in the left is more detailed and with more curly lines, also, the left hand upper corner has a stuffed yellow hair and was balanced by the dark shadow of the earring in the right hand lower corner. This has balanced the whole picture create a good proportion when handling this It differs from traditional paintings that focus on technique and compositional style, instead he used contrasting colour and a popular person as subject matter. By using bold black outlines and dotted shading, it changed the drawing into a comic style painting, which is a iconic style in Pop Arts. This aims to blur the thought of “high” art and “low” art culture and shows his remembrance of Marilyn. Andy Warhol then experiment the different colours, formats, and sizes of the Marilyn Monroe such as Gold Marilyn Monroe and Marilyn Diptych. I think that this painting is not a breathtaking piece, but it takes an important role in developing the arts culture and widen up the variety of

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