CLIL: Pop Art by Alessandra Raio https://padlet.com/alessandra_raio/pop_art Andy Warhol- Marylin Keith Haring en-us 2020-04-30 09:37:32 UTC 2025-04-24 10:22:43 UTC hello@padlet.com Andy Warhol alessandra_raio https://padlet.com/alessandra_raio/pop_art/wish/541425608 An iconic artist of the American Pop Art movement, Andy Warhol (Pittsburg, 1928 – New York, 1987) was one of the most influential artists on an international level in the period after World War II. Warhol not only changed the rules of the visual arts, but also, more generally, of communication, multimedia and publishing, as well as the notion of the artist as a public figure, and of the artwork as a consumer good and simulacrum of the collective imagination. Born to Slovak parents, from 1945 he studied design and the visual arts, and this union of information, art and commerce quickly became the fundamental core of his aesthetics. During his years working as an illustrator, Warhol took an interest in printing techniques such as the silkscreen (serigrafia) process. This technique then became the principal means by which the artist revolutionized pictorial language, introducing the mechanical, impersonal and serial nature of the work’s creation into the grammar of contemporary art. Moving to New York, and having also worked as a window-dresser, in the early 1960s Warhol devoted himself exclusively to the visual arts, holding his first one-man exhibitions where he showed works that radically broke away from the period’s pictorial language linked to Abstract Expressionism.
Through works such as 100 Soup Cans, 100 Coke Bottles and 100 Dollar Bills, Warhol conceived a visual universe dominated by symbols of mass consumption (canned soup, Coca-Cola, the dollar), replacing the idea of art as an individual and interior form of expression with the concept that art is a kind of record of reality and the present. During those years, Warhol developed a technique that began with silkscreen printing (a process for printing and duplicating photographic images) and continued with the application of acrylic colors which were spread in rough patches to distinguish different versions of the same image. In this way, the artist generated friction between the uniqueness traditionally associated with artworks and the unlimited reproducibility of the photographic image.

]]> 2020-04-30 09:40:08 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_raio/pop_art/wish/541425608 Marylin alessandra_raio https://padlet.com/alessandra_raio/pop_art/wish/541500781 Marilyn Monroe was and still remains one of the biggest sex-symbols of all the time. When she was alive, her personal life was more interesting than her professional one. Warhol had become fascinated by the idea of popular figures such as Monroe that lived unimaginably glamorous lifestyles and who had attained an almost mythical status as Hollywood ICONS.
The five rows of the diptych resemble the movie like strips that acknowledge her status as an icon. The repetition of her image symbolized mass production while the diptych style that was used in the portrait was inspired by the Byzantine icons of Christian saints. By placing Marilyn Monroe’s portraits in the diptych, Warhol was commenting on the saint-like nature that fans assign celebrities, which in turn causes the public to approach celebrities with some sense of holiness and immortality.
Warhol’s art was created to remind audiences and fans that there is actually a real person behind all the fame and glamour. Perhaps he wanted to depict to the world that these famous women were regular human beings that experienced pain and suffering, despite their celebrity.
This Diptych can also be said to have been a celebration as well as a satire of the world’s obsession with materiality and fame. It was both worship and analysis that criticized and encouraged a culture that had become obsessed with money and fame. At the same time, Warhol also used Marilyn to criticize himself, as he was also after the same fame and celebrity that his famous subjects enjoyed.
Although he was careful to conceal his faith throughout his career, it is believed that the Marilyn Monroe diptych, was also explicitly religious: Marilyn Monroe appears in the canvas as a superhuman and is almost saintly-like. Marylin was therefore used to represent a martyr that has to this day remained unchanged and immaculate even as the rest of contemporary society continues to rot and waste away.

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diptych> religion
5 colours:
-yellow: hair
-pink: face
- white: teeth
-aqua: collar and eyelid
-orange: background
Black and white part
-silver, black and white: Marilyn's death, her fading, Holliwood screens



]]> 2020-04-30 10:25:44 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_raio/pop_art/wish/541523831 Marilyn Diptych - 1962- at Tate Modern alessandra_raio https://padlet.com/alessandra_raio/pop_art/wish/541543651 2020-04-30 10:35:35 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_raio/pop_art/wish/541543651 Marilyn Monroe, 1967 alessandra_raio https://padlet.com/alessandra_raio/pop_art/wish/541556358 2020-04-30 10:41:34 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_raio/pop_art/wish/541556358 Keith Haring alessandra_raio https://padlet.com/alessandra_raio/pop_art/wish/2179679409 2022-05-11 15:52:21 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_raio/pop_art/wish/2179679409 Keith Haring: Works alessandra_raio https://padlet.com/alessandra_raio/pop_art/wish/2179686219 2022-05-11 15:56:14 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_raio/pop_art/wish/2179686219 Keith Haring: Video alessandra_raio https://padlet.com/alessandra_raio/pop_art/wish/2179695271 2022-05-11 16:01:46 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_raio/pop_art/wish/2179695271