Marilyn Diptych

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Painting · 1962 · New York · Americas

Fifty silkscreened Marilyns, vivid on the left and fading on the right: fame and death

Author

Andy Warhol

Style

Pop art — Ads, comics and celebrities as fine-art subjects: the mass-produced image

Century

20th century

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Made around the same time (±30 years)

• 1962 Campbell's Soup Cans — Andy Warhol · Pop art · New York
• 1959–1973 Sydney Opera House — Jørn Utzon · Modern architecture (International Style) · Sydney
• 1967 One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez · Mexico City
• 1962–1964 Vanna Venturi House — Robert Venturi · Postmodernism · Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
• 1962 The Girl from Ipanema — Antônio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes · Rio de Janeiro
• 1963 Whaam! — Roy Lichtenstein · Pop art · New York
• 1964–1971 Rothko Chapel — Mark Rothko · Abstract expressionism · Houston
• 1964 Enta Omri (You Are My Life) — Umm Kulthum · Cairo

What was happening in the world

• 1947–1991 Cold War
• 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• 1949 Founding of NATO
• 1953 Discovery of the DNA double helix
• 1953 First ascent of Everest
• 1957 Sputnik 1, the first satellite