Marilyn Monroe (Red) - Screenprint on Canvas 20" x 20"

Marilyn Monroe (Red) by WarHo™ is a 2025 screenprint on canvas that engulfs the iconic portrait of Monroe in a fierce and unforgiving field of red. The effect is immediate and visceral—her face doesn’t simply emerge from the background; it burns through it. Rendered in stark black against the searing red ground, Monroe’s expression takes on new weight: is it allure, defiance, exhaustion? The color charges the image with a sense of passion, or perhaps warning.

True to WarHo™’s practice, the image is pulled by hand from original silkscreens created using the public domain Gene Korman publicity still. The screenprinting process introduces subtle irregularities and textural moments that break through the otherwise overwhelming flatness of the red. Red, in this context, becomes more than symbolic—it becomes a filter through which the viewer must confront the mechanics of attention, attraction, and intensity. The figure remains static, but the color makes it volatile.

In Marilyn Monroe (Red), WarHo™ tests the limits of visibility. The work doesn’t merely depict a celebrity—it confronts us with the heat of her image and the cultural machinery that keeps it burning. It’s a portrait turned up to full volume: seductive, confrontational, and impossible to ignore. 

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