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Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn) is therefore the perfect encapsulation of the spirit of an age; a candy-colored memento mori. "Of all the painters working today in the service--or the thrall--of a popular iconography, Andy Warhol is perhaps the most single-minded and the most spectacular, I admit, to register an advance protest against the advent of a ...
birth to death (109) mortality - fading image (1) work and occupations (5,453) arts and entertainment (7,210) actor (261) ‘Marilyn Diptych‘, Andy Warhol, 1962.
Para Marilyn Diptych, Andy Warhol se apropia de una de las fotografías más populares de Marilyn Monroe. El retrato empleado es de la campaña publicitaria para la promoción de la película Niagara de 1953; “[…] con esta simple elección Warhol establece una distancia histórica entre la vida y la función simbólica de la estrella al evitar los rasgos del envejecimiento y el colapso ...
24 de oct. de 2010 · The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA is pleased to announce Life as a Legend: Marilyn Monroe, an exhibition that captures the spark, sex appeal and sensation that was Marilyn Monroe through the art of Andy Warhol, Allen Jones, Peter Blake, Richard Avedon, Bert Stern, Henri Cartier-Bresson and many others. October 24, 2010 – January 23, 2011.
In 1998, Orange Marilyn (1964), a depiction of Marilyn Monroe, sold for $17.3 million, which at the time set a new record as the highest price paid for a Warhol artwork. In 2007, one of Warhol's 1963 paintings of Elizabeth Taylor, Liz (Colored Liz) , which was owned by actor Hugh Grant , sold for $23.7 million at Christie's .
Andy Warhol made many, many paintings and prints of the actress and American sex symbol Marilyn Monroe, transforming her from a pop icon into a pop art product.It’s no accident that Warhol painted soup cans and pop stars in the same style—he explored celebrity as a force that transformed people into commercial objects.
Warhol se convirtió en un icono del pop art gracias a sus famosas serigrafías de Marilyn Monroe, Campbell's Soup Cans y Coca-Cola Bottles, entre otras. Estas obras representaban la obsesión de la sociedad por la fama, la cultura de masas y el consumismo.
