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Andy Warhol No 1 from Marilyn Monroe ( Marilyn ) 1970. snobby collection to a greater extent than detail. \nWarhol had a fascination with things morbid. Sometimes, however, the results were astonishingly beautiful, much(prenominal) as the resonating, bright discolored images of Marilyn Monroe. On the occasion of her felo-de-se on gilded 1962 Warhol took a forwarding shot by Gene Korman of Marilyn Monroe taken for the film Niagara do in 1953. Warhol cropped the 8 x 10 glossy to agree the proportion of the canvases he was using and penetrateprinted the organic law for several paintings. The Marilyn canvases were archaean examples of Warhols hire of permeateprinting, a method the creative person warmed to, recalling that: \nIn August 62 I started doing silkscreens. I wanted something stronger that gave more of an assembly bank bill effect. With silkscreening you pick a photograph, blow it up, transplant it in attach onto silk, and and then divagate ink crosswise it so the ink goes with the silk except not through the glue. That way you sterilise the same image, somewhat different individually time. It was all so simple loyal and chancy. I was thrill with it. When Marilyn Monroe happened to die that month, I got the idea to comprise screens of her beautiful formula the first Marilyns. \n employ photo-stencils in screenprinting meant that Warhol could use photographic images for his screenprints. The screen (originally silk, later some other mesh fabrics) is cover with a photosensitive gelatine coating. Where set down is projected though a oppose transparency, the gelatine is hard-bitten and this forms the stencil for printing, time the soft gelatine protected by the black of the contradict areas is washed absent with water. Different colour inks are then passed through the screen using a rubber vane called a squeegee. \n