He made the poster The Films of Andy Warhol in 1988 for the exhibition that opened at the Museum of Modern Art showcasing his extensive film work.Īs well as making films Warhol was a keen photographer. Fourteen years later he donated all his original films to New York’s Museum of Modern Art for cataloguing with the Whitney Museum’s Andy Warhol Film Project. This meant that critics and scholars had to write about them from memory, from reviews or from verbal descriptions. In 1970 Warhol famously withdrew all his films from circulation. It was the collector who bought the artwork from Warhol who suggested the idea: ' I said I thought they should be presented as a diptych, Andy replied ‘gee whiz yes’' Warhol did not originally intend these two canvases to be shown together as a single artwork. The two contrasting sides of this work capture the contrast between Marilyn’s artificial public persona on the left and the harsh reality of her troubled private life on the right. The other is monochrome and sombre, the uneven application of ink causing her face slowly to disappear. One of the canvases is vibrant and bursting with energy, representing the star’s flamboyant public personality. The rows of repetitive heads suggest postage stamps, billboard posters or, perhaps more fittingly, film strips. (Two-part works such as this one are often referred to as diptychs). The work is made up of two canvases, each featuring 25 Marilyns printed in a grid pattern. It was exhibited in his first New York exhibition in 1962. Marilyn Diptych 1962 is perhaps one of Warhol’s most iconic works.
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