Posted: December 9th, 2014

Art History-Andy warhol Gold Marilyn Visual analysis

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 🙂