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A-Level: Pop portraits

Francis Bacon, Triptych - August 1972, 1972, oil on canvas, 72 x 61 x 22 in. (183 x 155 x 64 cm), (Tate Modern, London) — Coping with the death of his lover, Bacon paints figures who decompose and fuse together in front of our eyes.

Francis Bacon, Triptych – August 1972

by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker

Andy Warhol, Gold Marilyn Monroe, Silkscreen ink, Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 71.25 x 57 in. (211.4 x 144.7 cm), 1962 (MoMA) — Marilyn’s floating head, garishly colored, functions as the Virgin Mary in a Byzantine icon.

Andy Warhol, Gold Marilyn Monroe

by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker

Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych — Warhol used a quasi-mechanical process of silkscreen to reproduce Marilyn Monroe’s familiar face again and again.

Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych

by Tina Rivers Ryan