Marilyn Monroe from the perspective of three great artists

June 01, 2020 at 10:58 a.m.

 

El talent, beauty and sensuality of Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) led her to become one of the most famous actresses of the XNUMXth century and, above all, to be a pop icon and a sexual symbol.

Throughout the world, artists from all disciplines have found inspiration in the Californian actress and have adopted her as their muse.

Today, on one more anniversary of her birth, we remember her through the art of three greats who immortalized her in their works.

Andy Warhol

After Marilyn's tragic death in 1962, Andy Warhol made a series of paintings as a tribute to the actress.

Warhol was beginning to experiment with screen printing and using portraits from an advertising image in the film Niagara, made a series of paintings that would become world famous.

Andy found in Marilyn everything that represented the United States of the 60s: promises, beauty, pleasure, fame and tragedy.

The American icon of the Pop art He had a fascination for Marilyn and made about 40 paintings on her.

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Seward johnson

American sculptor Seward Johnson, famous for his bronze and life-size figures He also found inspiration in Monroe.

Forever Marilyn It is a sculpture that was installed in 2011 on Michigan Avenue, in Chicago, United States.

The work, which is almost eight meters high and weighs more than 15 thousand kilos, recreates the famous scene from the film Temptation lives above (1955), in which the actress goes through a ventilation grille in Manhattan and the air expelled from it lifts her dress.

Made of stainless steel and aluminum, the figure manages to capture the essence of one of the most sensual sequences on the big screen.

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Bert Stern

There were several photographers who immortalized the Hollywood diva, but the American Bert Stern He would be the one who portrayed the actress in the last months of his life.

The Last Stitching It is a collection of 2 photographs taken of Marilyn Monroe in 1962 at the Bel-Air Hotel in Los Angeles. 

Stern made the report six months before the death of the actress, the photographs showed a Marilyn without makeup, in very transparent clothes, showing her most natural side.

The photos were presented to Vogue magazine, but as they were very daring for the time, they had to do a second session.

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