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.
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