Marilyn Monroe Pop Art
Words: 988 1127In August 1962, only weeks after Marilyn Monroe died, Andy Warhol bought a publicity photograph of her from the 1953 film Niagara and began turning it into silkscreen paintings. He would repeat that same cropped face hundreds of times over the next two decades. The result is one of the strangest legacies in modern art: a woman whose real biography was full of struggle became the most reproduced smile of the twentieth century. Monroe's image did not simply appear in […]
