Our art class is now starting to learn about art history. While the grade eleven students are learning about a different time period, the grade twelve's, including myself, are focusing on more recent dated artworks. We were able to decide how we wanted to re create a certain art work from a specific time period. I chose Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe painting. We were asked to include a story of the art work in our creation. For my creation I think I've decided to repaint the Marilyn Monroe painting and add a story in the background. This shows the original painting but with the story explained too. In the picture below I've shown the writing in the background with using the name "Marilyn Monroe". In my actual art work I will replace this name with a story.
Andy Warhol was drawn to celebrities such as Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. The attraction he had to Monroe was not simply because of her beauty. He created it from a picture that had been taken before Monroe's death in 1962. Andy Warhol's pop art reflected his belief in by taking what we may see as just part of our everyday life and showing us how it is in everything that we do. Warhol was accurate, the paintings are of nothing, the soup (Cambells Soup) means nothing and maybe Marilyn was treated by society in the very same way. So many people admire her now.
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