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- Artists
- Fairey, Shepard
 - Edition Details
| Year: | 2000 | | Class: | Art Print | | Status: | Official | | Run: | 2 | | Technique: | Screen Print | | Paper: | 1/8" thick aluminum | | Size: | 18 X 24 | | Markings: | Signed & Numbered |
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MERRY KARNOWSKY GALLERY 2000This print is based on Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe prints.
From Supply and Demand, pg. 34:
Andy Warhol was a big inspiration because he made a mockery of the fine art world, taking press stills and household items and turning them into high art. I felt like what I was doing was pop art in a similar vein, but I was taking it even further outside the institutions and straight to the street. I remember when I was making t-shirts, somebody said, “Isn’t it amazing that you’re taking one of the ugliest images ever and putting it on a shirt, and people are buying it up as fashion?” I had the idea of taking that a step further by taking Marilyn’s sex symbol face and changing that into Andre’s ugly face. Andre wasn’t a handsome man and he’s even a more hideous woman, but people loved the humor of the poster and snapped it up anyway. - Shepard Fairey
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