First Impressions Of Marilyn Monroe By Andy Warhol

First of all, I could instantly notice how this image is different than that of Andy Warhol’s, whose painting was clearly the inspiration for this one. From the very first glance I felt weird because I kept comparing the original painting to this one. The main thing that was odd to me was the gender swap. Instead of Marilyn Monroe’s face, you could see an old man. It made me feel quite uncomfortable, even though everything else besides that was exactly the same as the original. The painting uses bright, vibrant colors. The main character in the picture looks painted in great detail. You can also notice how the main character in this painting is an old man, who seems to be, the painter himself. His face is old and full of wrinkles. Despite that, he has red lipstick and blue eye shadow on and even the signature beauty mark that Marilyn Monroe had above her lip. He also has bright blond hair in a hairstyle, …show more content…
Slettemark’s other works and projects, I could clearly see that most of them are made to be quite shocking. They really stand out from the rest and probably only he truly understood the idea behind them, which made him and his work to be misunderstood by the public. In my opinion, this is also the case here. After seeing this, I was shocked and I did not know how to feel about it or react to it. I have two theories about what the artist might have been trying to showcase with this painting. The first one is that he simply wanted to mock the original painting and how so many artists have used the image of M. Monroe throughout the years in one way or another. The second, and the more likely one, is that he simply wanted to break the standard of beauty. For decades now, M. Monroe has been called the perfect woman, both by the people and the media. So in this case I think the artist wanted to provoke the audience and show them that beauty has no limits, meaning that anybody can compare themselves to the beauty icon despite their age or even