Blog Post 3

This piece of artwork is called “Marilyn was Here” and was done by Richard Lindner in 1967. I found this piece on the Metropolitan Museum of Art website and it stuck out to me the most, because of the colors and it seemed different then the other collages of the website. In the description it included that Lindner captures pictures of American and British Pop artists, and that this piece “portrays her as both sexual vixen and national icon.” For “sexual vixen” it can be the way her body is shaped and portraying her characteristics and for “national icon” it can be the American flag next to her body. The medium of this artwork is watercolor, ink, graphite, cut and pasted printed-paper, fabrics and garter belt on paper. What I found interesting was that it was just the middle of her body, not including her head or the knees and down. The different colors, drawings, and paper that made up the body made it look intriguing. The colors are a combination both primary and secondary, with the darker colors as the back ground and the body being lighter, it makes the angle of the body stand out. The first part of the piece that caught my attention was the middle with the yellow space.  Overall, I think this is a great piece to look at and try to see the story behind it.