Andy Warhol

To create this image Warhol and assistants used a silkscreen technique which is a method using screens, light sensitive emulsion and stencils to create multiple versions of the same artwork. This is often used in clothing mass production. Each of the faces also look different every time. Whether it's the colour of the paints or positioning of the models facial features like the eyebrows. In some of the images there is blur or movement. This may be a result of attempting to complete the job very quickly and slipping with the emulsion or stencil. However this seems to add character to this collection of images and makes each of them unique even though they are all meant to be the same. Each of them being slightly different makes me think that they are individual images, all taken in quick succession similar to a film strip. A lot of the detail in the images have been taken away because of the technique used to make it. However there is enough detail to recognise the famous figure who is modelling. The colours that have been used are very bright and grabs the attention of the viewer. They seem to exaggerated the actual colours of the models face and hair, since as we know Marilyn Monroe is Caucasian and blond.

Once again Warhol has used an image repetitively of an item that is seen in supermarkets across the USA. Everyone would have seen this tin and Warhol has made it into a piece of art by making it the main subject. However there are lots of copies of these being displayed in the gallery giving it the effect that you are actually looking at a shelf in the market. A large amount of the image is either black or white and the colour red is what makes this image stand out. The tin is central inside the frame and covers the frame from top to bottom. I really like this image because of its uniformity and simplicity of the colours and shapes that have been used. All of them are actually quite different because they are all different flavour soups; one even has a gold ribbon across the middle.