Marilyn x 100
Andy Warhol · 1962 · Cleveland Museum of Art
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The image of Marilyn Monroe in Marilyn x 100, the largest of Andy Warhol's many paintings featuring the celebrity, comes from a publicity still for the 1953 film Niagara. Warhol reproduces this iconic image through silk screening, a commercial printing technique from which the artist's hand is absent, on top of a unique underpainting made by Warhol. As was common throughout Warhol's work, Marilyn x 100 explores the relationship—and suggests overlaps—among mass media, technology, pop culture, and fine art. This work's palette suggests clashing representations of Marilyn Monroe: technicolor filmstrip and black-and-white newsreel footage of the 1940s and ’50s.
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Details
- Maker
- Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987)
- Date
- 1962
- Medium
- screenprint ink and synthetic polymer paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 210.2 x 573.2 x 6.4 cm (82 3/4 x 225 11/16 x 2 1/2 in.); Unframed: 205.7 x 567.7 cm (81 x 223 1/2 in.)
- Place of origin
- America
- Held by
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · On view · 229A Contemporary
- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, and Anonymous Gift