Dear Brandon, I am in the city of New York City, where the painting, Marilyn by artist, Andy Warhol, was created. Marilyn was created in 1967. I spent money to travel to New York City because New York is the home of some of the country’s best museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York City is also very diverse and is America’s most populous city. Marilyn was created years after movie star and sex symbol, Marilyn Monroe’s death, as a tribute to the late actress. It costed $310 to travel to New York City and I am staying at the DoubleTree Suites, which costs $284. A fact about Andy Warhol is that he was the pioneer of “Pop Art”, a huge art movement in the 1950’s.
New York City is the city that never sleeps. It's very loud and crowded, and there's
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The process used is printmaking. Printmaking is when you pick a photograph, transfer it onto silk and transferring ink through a screen to a sheet of paper. The size of the work is 6 x 6 inches. There is no texture. The element of art used in Marilyn is color. Blocking of colors were used and Marilyn consisted a monochromatic color scheme, like a lot of Warhol’s “Pop Art” works.
The style in which the work was made is called “Pop Art”. The style “Pop Art” flourished in the mid-1950’s and early 1960’s. During the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, President Eisenhower was the President of the United States. The “Pop Art” style flourished in London in the mid-1950’s, and by the early-1960’s, it had made it’s way to the U.S. “Pop Art” was a part of the Modern Era, so everything about the style was current and modern. Nothing was retained from the past.
The subject matter in Marilyn is Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn is 2D. The medium is screenprint and Warhol’s method was to use photographical images and to press different colored inks through the screen onto paper. The elements that Warhol used for Marilyn are colors and shadows to create a monochromatic