Since I couldn’t make my mind up about what album cover choose, and then write about, I finally got to painting, and chose one which belongs to the Pop Art trend, it is one of the Andy Warhol’s Marilyn prints (1962). As you may know, Pop Art came up in 1950’s in response to the mass media and all the boom of technology, capitalism, fashion, and consumerism. In 1960` s Warhol started painting several images of celebrities, in which he used the silkscreen painting technique.
I like so much the daffy way in which he used colours. It’s totally out of the way we use to see how they used to be combined in paintings. They really give life and light to the person that was shoot (with the camera, of course). Since I’d always seen Marilyn in black and white, I think she looks great here. Actually, I've got the main image as a magnet on my fridge.
I had the great chance of visiting the MoMA in NY, and I could appreciate some of these paintings. These are damn wicked!
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Nice! I never knew daffy was a real word! I thought it had been invented for the cartoon character.
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