Marilyn Monroe (Silver Round) - Screenprint on Canvas

Marilyn Monroe (Silver Round) by WarHo™ is a 2025 screenprint on a 12-inch circular canvas, offering an intimate yet radiant take on the screen icon. Set against a metallic silver field, the portrait gleams softly, evoking the glow of the silver screen and echoing the reflective surfaces of Warhol’s Factory. The round format lends the work a medallion-like presence—part relic, part halo—framing Monroe not only as a cultural icon but as something almost celestial.

Screenprinted by hand using custom silkscreens derived from the original Gene Korman publicity photograph, the work continues WarHo™’s devotion to the methods and visual vocabulary of Pop art. The silver acrylic background recalls Warhol’s own experiments with metallics in portraits of Liz Taylor, Elvis Presley, and his 1966 Self-Portrait. Here, the material carries a quiet charge, suggesting fame not as spectacle but as something cool, polished, and enduring.

Though modest in size, Marilyn Monroe (Silver Round) is conceptually rich. The circular shape focuses attention, intensifying the tension between intimacy and distance, surface and myth. It’s a portrait not just of Monroe, but of the enduring shine of her image—captured, contained, and refracted through silver light.