Andy Warhol made an impact, unconventionally, to the world of pop culture with his unapologetic tones of overt sexuality and singularity.  Particularly with the Marilyn pieces, he reinvents the poster girl for sex in the 1950s into a poster girl for the pop culture phenomenon of the 60s.  Her untimely death gets increased the value of her impact in modern day society.  However, Warhol saw the world of pop culture in bigger, brighter tones than that of the every day Joe.  Knowing that regular colors wouldn’t do for Marilyn, he allowed the starlet to absorb dramatic hues of cyan, yellow and magenta as a means to showcase the multiple layers of her sexuality.

First printed in 1967, Warhol pioneered the pop art movement, focusing his art on a more cartoonish yet socially relevant medium.  His focus on items and icons that were commercially popular allowed him to distinguish himself from others in the pop art movement, while at the same time, making his own work commercially popular.  He also added homosexual tones to his works. For example, the Marilyn pieces are pieces of an icon who is not only worshiped by the heterosexual faction, but the homosexual one as well, though it was his earlier male nudes that truly defined his homosexuality.

Nicknamed the “Pope of Pop Art”, Warhol managed to make his own image as iconic as his own work.  Both he and his art are instantly recognizable, which is exactly what Warhol was striving for: commercially viable art in mass production.  It is he who helped the mass production of art, so he was convinced that he could not only produce works in his own factory, but mass produce them at the same time.  It is these expansive dreams that have brought art into an era of mass production and commercial popularity.