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Andy Warhol: Untitled Painting Of Marilyn Monroe 1967

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Andy Warhol is the artist of this Untitled painting of Marilyn Monroe 1967. This is considered to be one from a portfolio of ten silkscreen prints. The dimensions of the Marilyn Monroe painting composition and sheet: 36 x 36" (91.5 x 91.5 cm). Andrew Warhola, famously known as Andy Warhol was born on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, “Andy Warhol was a successful magazine and ad illustrator who became a leading artist of the 1960s Pop art movements. He ventured into a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations and writing, and controversially blurred the lines between fine art and mainstream aesthetics” (Bio.com, A&E Networks Television). As a child, Andy enjoyed drawing, which soon became …show more content…

Warhol is also known for creating silkscreen products like Campbell’s Soup and Coca-Cola. The Untitled painting of Marilyn Monroe, is considered to be a trendy and fashionable silkscreen painting, which comes in a total of ten different color techniques. In order to successfully create a silkscreen printing image, pop artist would usually combine fine art materials with commercial elements. In order to make a beautiful silkscreen printing image you must use any symbolic image of your own choice or you may draw something yourself on a piece of paper. What you have now drawn, you will now cut out the design, which will now be known as your art stencil. You are welcome to place the stencil on a t-shirt or on a paper bigger than the stencil. Using a square rubber squeegee with mesh board, place the mesh board on top of the stencil, and pour out some paint to go over the stencil. Once you have colored your stencil, remove the squeegee and let your stencil dry. I would describe this Marilyn Monroe’s silkscreen image to have a fauves of multi-colors. Andy Warhol was a very creative man that had outside the box ideas for all of his …show more content…

Planographic print is mostly used as a house décor, on stylist t-shirts, museum of famous artist, pictures hung inside nightclubs and restaurant building walls. I find this kind of print making to be a cool trendy look, and is actually considered to be a high price seller. Andy Warhol, used a variety of colors for each and every one of his Marilyn Monroe printings, in fact Warhol would use a mixture of bright and dark colors. In the image above, that caught my attention, the artist used a detail of dark shades of pink, along with a light shade of pink. Majority of the Marilyn Monroe silkscreens, were made in a high saturation and low saturation of color

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