Andy Warhol Marilyn Diptych Analysis

The painting done by Andy Warhol called Marilyn Diptych was the third most influential piece of modern art according to an article in The Guardian (Warhol).The canvas was based on a publicity photo of Marilyn Monroe from the film Niagara. Furthermore, Warhol took the one picture and spread it across a two sided canvas as fifty smaller images. On one side there were twenty-five images expressed with bright colors. Likewise, on the other side there were twenty-five pictures conveyed in black and white. Correspondingly, the two very different sides drew attention to two very different audiences.
This piece of art was very unique and some people might even say that it wasn’t art because it was made by using a machine that processed silk screening images. In addition when Warhol created this picture he wanted to represent the idea of mass production and certainly achieved it. As I stated earlier, the subject of this piece of art was Marilyn Monroe and it was created weeks after her death in
The first audience of modern secular middle class women of the pop culture considered worshiping the image not only because it was created on a diptych, but because it idolized the strength women could have and do have in a modern day life. The color and spacing of the image effected this middle class female audience in a positive and helpful way. Although, the opposite audience of traditional male religious artists didn’t appreciate the artwork. They viewed it as a mock to a monotony life and symbolized the degrading of women’s sense of self in the nineteen sixties. All in all, this artwork was created to allow for an audience to create their own meaning and emotions towards it. As you can see, these very different audiences had diverse perspectives on this artwork and found it meaningful and offending in conflicting