1. JFK as an Icon
Warhol uses red, which has connotations of Blood and murder it could also be a suggestion, that Kennedy had a darker side than his common public persona, the blue used in the image contrasts with the red to make the picture, hard to focus on, although the Kennedy smile is there, its hard to find it appealing, the picture could almost be seen as ugly Coplans suggests that "Although stars such as Marylyn Monroe, and JFK are made to look ugly, and distasteful in Warhol's presentation, there is beauty in the work that has nothing to do with the physical attributes of the originals but with t...
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