Marilyn Diptych. The Marilyn Diptych (1962) is a silkscreen painting by American pop artist Andy Warhol.
History and analysis[edit] The twenty-five pictures on the left side of the diptych are brightly colored, while the twenty-five on the right are in black and white. It has been suggested that the relation between the left side of the canvas and the right side of the canvas is evocative of the relation between the celebrity's life and death.[1][2][3] The piece is currently owned by the Tate. In a December 2, 2004 article in The Guardian, the painting was named the third most influential piece of modern art in a survey of 500 artists, critics, and others.[4] Work of art that inspired a movement ... a urinal. A humble porcelain urinal - reclining on its side, and marked with a false signature - has been named the world's most influential piece of modern art, knocking Picasso and Matisse from their traditional positions of supremacy.
Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, created in 1917, has been interpreted in innumerable different ways, including as a reference to the female sexual parts. However, what is clear is the direct link between Duchamp's "readymade", as the artist called it, and the conceptual art that dominates today - Tracey Emin's Bed being a prime example. According to art expert Simon Wilson, "the Duchampian notion that art can be made of anything has finally taken off. And not only about formal qualities, but about the 'edginess' of using a urinal and thus challenging bourgeois art. " 'Marilyn Diptych', Andy Warhol. File:Marilyndiptych.jpg.