Mairlyn In Silk

The Story Of This Painting.

This Neo-Pointillist painting is on 2 sheets of 18"x24" plexiglass on top of 1 sheet of 24"x32" plexiglass. Approximately 24,000 dots! You can learn more about my journey to Pointillism here.

The photograph this painting is based on was taken by Douglas Kirkland in 1961 for his Life Magazine series 'An evening with Marilyn', a year before her death. Kirkland was ten years younger than the thirty-five year old Marilyn at the time, and fell head over heals for her during the photo shoot.

"Now it was just the two of us. Me with Marilyn Monroe, lying there ready to respond to my requests wearing nothing more than a silk sheet! I wasn't sure exactly what was expected of me. What was I supposed to do? I retreated behind my camera and started shooting. With her I thought that I'd discovered who Marilyn really was, but that notion was quickly put aside when I saw the other darker, sadder individual, whom I sat next to on that last night, as we looked through the pictures. Then of course, there was the "true" Marilyn Monroe, from the night of our shoot, the girl that I predictably fell in love with during that evening." - Douglas Kirkland

Marilyn In Silk - Blonde.

The Story Of This Painting.

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