Larry rivers

The Red Beret (1956)

Oil on canvas

 The red beret is very different. It looks unfinished but everything in it comes out so clearly. It looks like it has been done in stages from start, but has not quite finished.  It catches my eye everytime I look at it, I like it because it is different but effective.

Anita cline

Seven angels 

Angel with triangle (2012)

Original Linocut printed in eight different colours in 410 gsm Somerset satin paper.

 The angel with triangle is very pretty, playful and fun I think, I like how well this print is made, the colours are very subtle. It's perfectly made with the colours that have been used and how every edge and cut is very precise. 

The Marilyn diptych

Andy Warhol

The Marilyn diptych

The Marilyn diptych is a silkscreen painting. It was made in August 1962. 

The Marilyn diptych contains fifty images of the actress Marilyn Monroe, twenty five of the images on the left hand side are brightly coloured while the other twenty five are in black and white. 

 

It was made by screen printing/ acrylic on canvas. It is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink blocking stencil to make an image. The attached stencil makes open areas of mesh that transfer ink which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image onto a substrate. A fill blade or squeegee is moved across the screen stencil, forcing ink into the mesh openings for transfer by capillary action during the squeegee stroke. it is the process of using a stencil to apply ink onto a substrate.

 

The reason I like this piece is because it is cleverly made, I like how half is in black and white and the other half is in clour, it is said that this is to represent the life and death of Marilyn Monroe.