Art History-Andy warhol Gold Marilyn Visual analysis

29. Art History-Andy warhol Gold Marilyn Visual analysis Through Gold from God to Glamour Pop artists seized on and critiqued celebrity culture Appropriation pop artist absorbed and borrowed form popular culture, challenging notions of originality and what it means to be an artist Idealized in death, her death and suicide was because of her fame and the entertainment she sacrificed herself for us Warhol could have chosen to stretch her image on the gold canvas however, he kept it small and centered to reveal that though she is gone her image of luxury glamour and perfect hair will remain forever. She has gained the veneration of the people  through fame. Celebrity See how Pop artists seized on and critiqued celebrity culture. The growing popularity of television in American homes in the late 1950s and early 1960s fed a culture of celebrity-worship across the United States. Now able to view their favorite actors, musicians, athletes, and politicians from the comfort of their living rooms, the public became captivated by people who represented the American dream of money, glamour, and success. Andy Warhol. Gold Marilyn Monroe. 1962 Marilyn is a women depicted in a non narrative, non sacred, non nude scene. She is the center of focus, of the frame yet she isn’t the virgin marry. She is floating in ethereal luxury and goldness, she was a golden girl and still has remained so Gold color, Choice of bright animation colors to revea that the ideolized Marilyn was a version of her the commodified and not the original Absence of historia Virigin Mary depiction had more historia. The halo was limited to around her head. Marilyn in engulfed by this halo almost as if Warhol is tyring to say this idolization is what swalled her up Glamorous God like veneration has changed to And inspite its luxury consumed her Interesting to see that women are either in a religious narrative, naked or commodified Marilyn is both the central and the vanishing point in itself Anew way of looking at portraiture Warhol used the gold color preserved with such elaboratness for divity of jesus and used it for Marilyn. Even when the virgin mary was depicted the reason was she was the mother of jesus. Hwoever, Marilyn isn’t depicted as part of any narrative but her own- fame on the silver screen TV! COLOR His color selection I find reminiscent of a modern rapheal, rapheal was renown for his blue sky tone, Warhol modified that, also the gold from the disputa same shade of gold Warhol uses Face in a square versus the triangle absence of her body in the portraiture. The tradition was to include the upper half of the body while painting. Warhol eliminates that and just focuses entirely on the face, It is a print Pop artists seized on the culture of celebrity worship, portraying cultural icons and political figures from a range of media. They embraced, and at times slyly critiqued, this media-saturated culture, employing the faces of Hollywood actors, musicians, notorious criminals, politicians—and the tabloid stories surrounding them—as sources of imagery and reflections of the changing culture. Gold Marilyn Monroe Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987) 1962. Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 6' 11 1/4" x 57" (211.4 x 144.7 cm) <div class="reference"></div> Soon after her tragic death in 1962, Warhol made a series of paintings paying tribute to Marilyn Monroe, the film star and sex symbol who had captured America’s imagination in films like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire. Warhol based this portrait on a publicity still from the 1953 film Niagara. He painted the background gold before silkscreening the boldly colored face in the center, adding black to show her features. Even as Warhol canonizes Monroe, he reveals her public persona as a carefully structured illusion. Original publicity still for the 1953 film Niagara This image is based on a pose from an image used for the film Niagara in 1953 When you look at it close up there are all sorts of blurs and smudges and imperfections that keep speaking to us as Marilyn lost to the world Her image is no longer immediate Her eyeshadow slides down into her eye- Melting Her lipstick is a little Off register Everything is slipping away? death Unique, center of a glittery gold field of the composition, presented as an Christian byzantine secular sort of object of veneration When a person is commoditized there is a certain death of self Marilyn central head isn’t proportional to the massive gold canvas Printed with bad registration almost looks like a comic strip Memorial gold, like an iconm replacing a virgin memory, In culture of glamor and fame Painting isn’t entirely authentic PLACE THIS ORDER OR A SIMILAR ORDER WITH US TODAY AND GET AN AMAZING DISCOUNT :)