Marilyn Diptych

In 1962, American Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe commit suicide and become enigmatic legend. Andy Warhol borrowed her stills in the movie "Niagara" which the creation of a large portrait of her, there is a separate piece, there are many picture put together. Painting "Marilyn Monroe Double painting" is the same as the base brick wall repeatedly arranged her image.

This painting was not painted. In order to produce the effect of repeated, Warhol using screen printing technology. The so-called screen printing is a modern printing methods, can be connected together using the same photographic plate-making method, resulting in a complex and diverse changes. Using this method, the artist's work is selected from the photographic works in the image, and then arrange simple color, as the process of making the screen more to rely on a chemical reaction, and the final printed by the machine work then it could pay to the assistant to complete. Reconcile the thin thick pigment, when the power of the size of the print, are likely to make subtle changes occur naturally works. In this sense, a combination of screen printing is actually painting paintings, photographs, and three types of printing media. People who use it do not have to have a superb drawing skills, because in fact it is simply no need painting, no problem as long as there are photographs, which allows the artist the freedom to choose subjects were ready performance. Also, if configured a screen, which can be hundreds of times in print, that is, the unique concept of the original no longer exists, art itself has become a mass-produced goods.