Name: Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych
Released: 2020-10-08

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S1 · E8 — Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych

S1:E8 · Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych

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Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci (short version)

13 min

Picasso’s Guernica

Michelangelo's David

15 min

The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault

15 min

Frida Kahlo's 'The Two Fridas"

15 min

The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck

15 min

Artemisia Gentileschi

15 min

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15 min

Monet's Water Lilies

15 min

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Mark Rothko's Seagram Murals

15 min

E11

The Thinker by Rodin

15 min

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Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych

Season 1 · Episode 8 · Oct 8, 2020

Andy Warhol made “Marilyn Diptych” in 1962, right after Marilyn Monroe’s death. By the 1960s Marilyn’s film career as a sex symbol was all but over. Warhol would effectively immortalize Marilyn as the sex symbol of the 20th century. The seductive blonde Marilyn with the heavy-lidded eyes and parted lips is frozen in time. She is transformed into the personification of the allure and glamour of Hollywood's Golden Age. Marilyn would make Warhol a household name, and Warhol would make Marilyn an icon. Marilyn Diptych is perhaps his greatest canvas, bringing together celebrity, death and exposure. It is both a warning and a love letter to America. Warhol, who is often criticised as vacuous or superficial, produced art, that is profoundly subversive and quite simply a perfect mirror of our times. Andy Warhol and Marilyn Monroe were both the embodiment of the American dream. They also, both projected a vacant persona that made sure no-body knew the real person behind the mask.

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Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych

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