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Sunday, 19 January 2025

Monday, 13 January 2025

Types of neighbourhoods

                              Cities, towns and villages are the places we live in.
In general terms, we can diferenciate between city and country.
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City mouse and country mouse

 

Thursday, 9 January 2025

THE SHOT MARILYNS BY ANDY WARHOL


 THE SHOT MARILYNS BY ANDY WARHOL

Shot Marilyns is a series of silkscreen paintings produced in 1964 by Andy Warhol, each canvas measuring 40 inches square, and each a portrait of Marilyn Monroe.




Andy Warhol  was born in Pennsylvania in 1928 and he died in 1987. He was an American visual artist, commercial illustrator, film director and producer. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture.

Questions:

1.Where is the painting?

2.What does it represent?

3.Why are they called the shot Marilyns?

4.What art movement does The Sot Marilyns belong to?

 

Answers:

1.In the Tate Museum (London)

2. The American dream: optimism, fragility, fame and iconography.

3.Because one person shot in the paintings with a gun

4.Pop art movement


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