Color plays a vital role in Warhol's work; his color schemes tend to be bright. Colors vary slightly allowing the viewer to actually perceive differences among the work. His style seems to be more detached and separate which little affecting concern or recognition is shaped. His style serves the statement to the audience showing how the media is affecting the society. Any highlights or shadows created are secondary and the apparently subjective management of colors that is so extreme that it disregards depth in the picture. Portrayed how society now is mostly shallow and nothing seems to be in depth anymore.
By completely covering the canvas with the same image of Mona Lisa, Warhol proposes the almost never-ending picture plane. One must question what this repetition is and why he chooses to work with repetition. Warhol chooses Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa to repeat to show when an image reoccurs, it is sensed that the actions we make have been repeated through history. Warhol shows a concurrent understanding of the past and the future of the images in this. This is not a way saying that history repeats itself, but rather that the past shapes the future that is in front of each one of us. Since the images are all alike, it shows that the past and future are both in a sense the same and stereotyped. Since life is like a sequence of images that alters as they repeat themselves, Warhol repeats the same images over and over again and sees repetition as a way of expressing himself. Also he makes the decision as to how many repeated images would appear on a single canvas. Since the lack of centering in this piece, it shows time without end. Concurrently, another object can be submitted for comparison. From the viewpoint of variation, no matter how unimportant, the viewer cannot rebut the existence of similarity. While all the images are similar, they are also very different. Due to different timing, location, or mood, an image can be viewed in so many different ways.
