Andy Warhol's Legendary Painting Of Marylyn Monroe

The colors used in Andy Warhol’s legendary painting of Marylyn Monroe’s are outstanding. The golden background is a symbol of Marylyn’s extravagant life. Warhol used colors such as bright yellow and formed curly lines on the head to represent Marylyn’s beautiful blonde hair. He also used very bright colors for Marilyn’s eyes and lips. At the center a much dark brown color is used forming a protruding rectangular platform that holds the actual face image. He produced shadows by painting the right part of the head brightly with bight yellow color while the hair on the left side of the head is painted with dark yellow color. This is clear evidence that the light is coming from the right side of the picture while the shadow is on the left side. It is impressive and remarkable the use of light in this painting, because it brings out the beauty and elegance of the whole image. …show more content…
Silkscreen ink are the main materials used in the painting. Warhol painted the image on the canvas to bring out an actual sensation or display of Marilyn Monroe; a goddess of sensuality. The most important part of this painting in my opinion is the way Warhol depicted both sides of Marylyn’s life the external and internal aspects. External Marylyn had a very extravagant life she was surrounded of wealth but all of that was fake and overdone just as the overdone colors in the painting. Internally her personal life was full of scandal more like the black that forms her eyes. It’s almost as if the shading of her eyes tells a deeper story. I found this impressive that Warhol managed to translate this in to his painting without losing his signature pop art style of bright colors and animated