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Marilyn Diptych
1962
Look from left to right. Marilyn starts as a star and ends as a ghost. Repetition turns celebrity into mass production, then lets the image disappear.
Artist field note
Andy Warhol
The artist who saw that art had entered the age of pop culture.
The five in one idea
Warhol understood that popular culture was not beneath serious art. It was becoming the culture.