Andy Warhol - Marilyn Monroe Hot Pink (1967)

Andy Warhol - Marilyn Monroe Hot Pink (1967)Andy Warhol was an American visual artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. He is known for his bright, colourful paintings and prints of subjects ranging from celebrities including Marilyn Monroe and Mohammed Ali, to everyday products such as cans of soup and Brillo pads. Warhol's colourful reproductions of Monroe's photo portrait originally a publicity still from her 1953 movie

Andy Warhol was an American visual artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. 

 He is known for his bright, colourful paintings and prints of subjects ranging from celebrities including Marilyn Monroe and Mohammed Ali, to everyday products such as cans of soup and Brillo pads. 

Warhol's colourful reproductions of Monroe's photo portrait -- originally a publicity still from her 1953 movie "Niagara" -- are among his most recognizable works, alongside his signature paintings of Campbell's soup cans.

 Using a technique called silkscreen printing, which duplicates images on paper or canvas using a layer of fine-mesh silk like a stencil, he began creating them in 1962, shortly after Monroe's death. As with his depictions of other famous figures, including Elvis Presley and Chinese leader Mao Zedong, the Pop artist created numerous versions of Monroe's portrait in various different colours and configurations.