Marilyn

The painting “Marilyn” is created in Minimalism style unique only to Tak Salmastyan Art. This is an Appropriation based on Marilyn Monroe's famous photo "Marilyn Monroe in White 1953 Shoot Red Striped Background". The painting tells the story with simplified forms exposing the essence, essentials, or identities of a subject or subjects through eliminating all non-essential forms, features, or concepts via vivid colors, simplified shapes, forms, space, and clean lines. For the individual Viewer, the title of the painting is the key to exploring the images from a personal level with a closer look. Minimalism or Minimal Art is a type of abstract painting which is characterized by simplicity of forms, shapes, space, clean lines, and lack of expressive content. The aim of Minimalism is the concentration on the pure qualities of color, form, shape, space, and lines.