Andy Warhol Marilyn Monroe Prints.

... Andy Warhol Marilyn Monroe Prints Andrew Warhola, later known as Andy Warhol, was a key figure in Pop Art, an art movement that emerged in America and elsewhere in the 1950s and came to prominence over the next two decades. Drawing its subject matter from popular culture and often using mass production techniques, Pop Art was initially received with little enthusiasm by many in the art world. Warhol had a fascination with things morbid. Sometimes, however, the results were astonishingly beautiful, such as the resonating, brilliantly coloured images of Marilyn Monroe. The Marilyn canvases were early examples of Warhol's use of screen-printing, a method the artist warmed to, recalling that In August '62 I started doing silk-screens. ... I wanted something stronger that gave more of an assembly line effect. With silk-screening you pick a photograph, blow it up, transfer it in glue onto silk, and then roll ink across it so

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