Unlike the intimate bond between mother and son depicted in Whistler’s portrait, the relationship between Hollywood celebrity and society is structured upon false pretenses of familiarity. The Pop Art style portrait, Marilyn, by Andy Warhol 1964 (see fig 2) depicts one of the most popular sex symbols of all time, Marilyn Monroe. This serigraph technique uses simplified gradients of bright colour to generate multiple prints of the famous Monroe. Warhol made numerous portraits of Monroe after her death, choosing to reprocess famous photographs depicting her at the peak of her career (Whiting p.38). Warhol reduces the structure of the portrait to colour and black outline, similar to that of highly contrasted film grain photographs. James states
Unlike the intimate bond between mother and son depicted in Whistler’s portrait, the relationship between Hollywood celebrity and society is structured upon false pretenses of familiarity. The Pop Art style portrait, Marilyn, by Andy Warhol 1964 (see fig 2) depicts one of the most popular sex symbols of all time, Marilyn Monroe. This serigraph technique uses simplified gradients of bright colour to generate multiple prints of the famous Monroe. Warhol made numerous portraits of Monroe after her death, choosing to reprocess famous photographs depicting her at the peak of her career (Whiting p.38). Warhol reduces the structure of the portrait to colour and black outline, similar to that of highly contrasted film grain photographs. James states