One Multicoloured Marilyn 1979 - 1986

Andy Warhol made this Marilyn in a way that makes you think about how images come into being, shifting and emerging through repetition, trial, error, and intuition. I imagine Warhol in his studio, pushing the ink across the screen. The colors around the edge – pink, green, and turquoise – are smeared, like he wiped his hands on the canvas. What was he thinking as he made this? I see the drips on Marilyn's face, and I think about how the physicality of the medium shapes our experience. This gesture communicates so much feeling. Warhol was in an ongoing conversation with other artists across time, inspiring one another’s creativity. Painting embraces ambiguity and uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations and meaning over fixed readings.