POP ART Marilyn Monroe / Andy Warhol

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In zijn series zeefdrukken van portretten van overbekende figuren zoals deze van het filmidool Marilyn Monroe, is Warhol ongetwijfeld het verst gegaan in het objectiveren en onpersoonlijk maken van het beeld. De figuur wordt stereotiep gemaakt door de isolatie, het uitvergroten van het portret, het repeterende en door de onwezenlijke schrille kleuren. Marilyn Monroe wordt opgenomen in de storm van massaficatie en neutralisatie waarin zijzelf tenslotte is aan tenonder gegaan.

Andy Warhol (United States of America 1928–1987)

No 1 from Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn) 1970
a series of ten colour screenprints unauthorised edition of 250
91.4 x 91.4 cm Private collection. Warhol had a fascination with things morbid. Sometimes, however, the results were astonishingly beautiful, such as the resonating, brilliantly coloured images of Marilyn Monroe. On the occasion of her suicide on August 1962 Warhol took a publicity shot by Gene Korman of Marilyn Monroe taken for the film Niagara made in 1953, which he cropped and screenprinted the composition for several paintings.
The Marilyn canvases were early examples of Warhol’s use of screenprinting, a method the artist warmed to, recalling that:
In August ’62 I started doing silkscreens. 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. I was thrilled with it. … When Marilyn Monroe happened to die that month, I got the idea to make screens of her beautiful face — the first Marilyns.
Warhol used the same images for his screenprint series of ten works, Marilyn Monroe.