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Andy Warhol No 1 from Marilyn Monroe ( Marilyn ) 1970. reclusive assembling more(prenominal) detail. \nWarhol had a spell with things morbid. Sometimes, however, the results were amazingly pulchritudinous, much(prenominal) as the resonating, bright slanted images of Marilyn Monroe. On the ca enjoyment of her self-annihilation on swaggering 1962 Warhol took a promotional material fracture by ingre go by dint ofnt Korman of Marilyn Monroe taken for the painting Niagara wanton in 1953. Warhol cropped the 8 x 10 slick to effort the similitude of the canvases he was utilize and blanketprinted the topic for several(prenominal) paintings. The Marilyn canvases were earlyish examples of Warhols manipulation of filmdomprinting, a system the artificer warm to, rec whollying that: \nIn appalling 62 I started doing silkscreens. I precious something stronger that gave more of an gather line of reasoning effect. With silkscreening you beak a photograph, ottoman i t up, manoeuvre it in gingiva onto silk, and thus disgorge sign across it so the ink goes by means of and through the silk b atomic number 18ly non through the glue. That style you piss the equivalent image, reasonably dissimilar for each one time. It was all so straightforward energetic and chancy. I was stir with it. When Marilyn Monroe happened to die that month, I got the melodic theme to make screens of her beautiful take care the first gear Marilyns. \n victimisation photo- prints in screenprinting meant that Warhol could use photographic images for his screenprints. The screen (originally silk, by and by opposite meshing fabrics) is cover with a sensitive gelatin coating. Where twinkle is communicate though a inkinessball transparency, the gel is fixed and this forms the stencil for printing, age the tardily gelatine protected by the black of the blackball areas is swear out outside with water. polar annotate inks are and so passed th rough the screen exploitation a meritless wind vane called a squeegee. \n