The Tate Gallery - Marilyn Monroe

This poster was created for Andy Warhol's seminal show at the Tate Gallery in London in 1971. It features one of his artworks from the show, "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn", from 1964. The Guardian's Nigel Gosling covered the exhibition at the time saying, "This has been National Warhol Week. The notorious American wonder boy of Pop, whose painting of a tin of soup fetched 25,000 at a recent auction, has moved in on London in a typical blaze of stealthy publicity. Not only is there a full-scale exhibition of paintings at the Tate Gallery; there are early (and hitherto almost unknown) drawings at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, prints at the Mayfair... Now, if ever, is the moment to make up our minds. Is he sublime or ridiculous? Or, a worrying thought, perhaps both?"

Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987) was an American artist, film director and producer. Warhol was a leading figure in the Pop Art movement, where he tackled the integration of art, celebrity and consumerist culture in his works. Well known for his serigraphs such as his Marilyn Diptych and Campbell’s Soup Cans, Warhol also produced and directed his own experimental films such as "Chelsea Girls", created Interview Magazine and managed The Velvet Underground. Warhol was multifaceted in medium, using photography, film, sculpture, paint and printmaking to create his various works. Before becoming the art icon he is known as today, Warhol was a commercial illustrator. After moving from Pittsburgh to New York in 1949, Warhol designed store window displays and created ads for luxury brands such as Chanel and Lighthouse Footwear. Today, one can find his works at the Andy Warhol Museum located in the artists’ hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and almost every other major museum in the world.

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