Andy Warhol Marylin Dyptich Analysis

One of the first things one notices about Andy Warhol’s piece “Marylin Dyptich” is the colors on the left side of the canvas and the black and white on the right. In this way, Warhol emphasize the parallels to pop culture, with the glam showed through the bright colors and the truth showed through the black and white. As one can tell from its title, this piece is a diptych, which means separated into two panels. This was popular for religious painting in the medieval area. Which is why Warhol chooses to make this piece in that composition. He is suggesting that we idolize these pop culture icons to the same scale as religion. The process in which Warhol created it is also important to it’s meaning, Warhol used the printmaking technique of