Andy Warhol- Marilyn Monroe Prints

Andy Warhol was a famous American artist who is best known for incorporating pop culture in his artistic works, often being referred to as the "pope of pop". Warhol became a serious player in the American art scene, not only working with painting and drawing, but also film, writing, music, photography and more. Warhol did a number of works using celebrities, notably several using Marilyn Monroe as the subject after her suicide. He intended to mass produce his art, and used a method called silk screening in which he transferred a photo onto a silk screen and used color inks to transfer the image onto various mediums.

He used bright and vibrant, but very obscure colors for the many faces of Marilyn Monroe shown in his prints. Warhol did many different prints, using one, two or multiple Monroe faces, and after four months of working on the Marilyn Monroe prints, Warhol released them to the public in 1967. I believe that the use of different colors of faces are supposed to symbolize the depth and difference in human emotion.