By painting the actress so many times, often with a repeating pattern, Warhol emphasized the commodification of Marilyn Monroe and the role her commercialized beauty played in popular culture.ģ. He went on to paint many more portraits of Monroe, including his 1967 silkscreen portrait Marilyn Monroe, based on the same image as the diptych.
The diptych was based on a publicity shot from her 1953 film Niagara. Not long after Monroe unexpectedly passed away, Warhol unveiled his spectacular Marilyn Diptych in 1962. Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson 1926-1962) was the subject of some of Warhol’s most famous portraits. Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol, 1967, via MoMA, New York Through Warhol’s depictions of Jackie Kennedy, one can see his fascination with her public persona as the perfect wife and mother, even when marked by grief.Ģ. In the 1964 silkscreen work Red Jackie, Warhol depicted Jackie in a much more glamorous way, with this image based on one of her official portraits taken by a photographer for her husband’s presidential campaign. While Nine Jackies turned Jacqueline Kennedy’s public tragedy into a cinematic play-by-play, it was not the only time Warhol painted Jackie. Red Jackie by Andy Warhol, 1964, via Levy Gorvy The middle row of the painting shows Jackie at JFK’s funeral, and the bottom row shows her shock during the swearing-in ceremony of Lyndon B. Composed of newspaper photographs of the Kennedy assassination and aftermath, the top row of Nine Jackies shows Kennedy before the event smiling for the crowd. Warhol’s Nine Jackies (1964) is a macabre depiction of Jackie’s reaction to the very public and unexpected death of her husband. Jackie Kennedy, as she was known at the time, had been the First Lady from 1961 until her husband John F. One of the famous women Warhol painted in the early sixties was former First Lady of the United States, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994). According to Jessica Beck, a curator at the Andy Warhol Museum, there’s a lot of gender swapping with women in Warhol’s work and female icons are used as surrogates for an idolized beauty that the pop artist aspired to have in his life. Though Warhol’s muses were most often women, he identified as a gay man and drew much of his inspiration from the gay underground culture, depicting these women with a perspective that was new to the mainstream art world. While Warhol’s works reflect some of the beauty standards imposed by the patriarchal society of the time, they are notable because they do not express the male gaze. Jackie Kennedy: Andy Warhol’s Nine Jackies and Red Jackie Nine Jackies by Andy Warhol, 1964, via Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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