CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/12/2018

Andy Warhol, all the way

The Whitney Museum's major Andy Warhol retrospective opens to the public today, and we're celebrating with this print from the artist's 1967 Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn) series, reproduced from our comprehensive catalogue raisonné of the prints, 1962–1987. "Through his conceptualization of the printing process," essayist Donna De Salvo writes, "Warhol transformed that process into his metaphor for America—its capitalism, its abundance, its industry, and, most important, its simultaneous and contradictory desire for innovation and uniformity—Marcel Duchamp meets Norman Rockwell meets cable television. In the subtle details of a single Camouflage print or the 632 variations of Sunset, we also discover a world of illusion fabricated by Andy Warhol, an artist who in the end got more than he could ever have foreseen when he decided 'not to be imaginative.'"