Mossy is a digitally printed repeating mural composed of verdant foliage ranging from light to dark green with brown tree trunks
in which he isolated and repeated Marilyn’s lips 168 times over two colored canvases
Alexa was urged to establish her renowned stationery company
The overall effect is a field of texture with bright reflective areas moving as the light shifts
The primary elements are from Andy Warhol’s Toy Paintings which were hand painted then silk screened on small canvases in 1983 for a show in Zurich
Marilyn Reversal - Carbon Substrate:Black Mylar - Item 3286 Mossy is a digitally printedAndy Warhol's fascination with Marilyn Monroe's fame, glamour, and tragic death began in the early 1960s. He immortalized her likeness, using a cropped film still from the 1953 movie Niagara, creating a powerful, instantly recognizable icon of both Pop Art and his own body of work. Created between 1979 and 1986, the Reversal Series was executed at the height of Warhol's career. Marilyn (Reversal) is part of this innovative series, in which Warhol