Andy Warhol, “Marilyn Monroe,” 1964 is a silkscreen in the same style as a Warhol’s paintings of Monroe. Pettibone began with a reproduction of one of Warhol’s many silkscreened portraits of the star, scaled it down, and then silkscreened his own version. Richard Pettibone’s work further blurs the boundary between original and copy, or replica. Since Pettibone’s “original” comes from a photograph of Warhol’s painting, which itself was a silkscreen of a photograph of the actress, his silkscreen has a degenerated quality to it.
Warhol is not the only artist from whom painter and sculptor Richard Pettibone has appropriated images and artistic strategies. Pettibone subverts the traditional notion of artists as creators of original works of art by borrowing from the works of well-known artists and replicating them at a smaller scale.
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