I Love Art - Marilyn: The Last Hours, a reenactment drawn by the model of Amanda Lepore #4

#4 The Sex

Marilyn: The Last Hours, a reenactment drawn by the model of Amanda Lepore

What to say about this drawing. I mean its obvious that some hand is touching the body of Monroe . And what I have read about her in many books is that Monroe in the last months of her life had a feeling like she was just keeping the mask of Monroe up and shrinks behind this mask till she does not even exist anymore. So for her sex is not an act of love, or connection between to people. Its just something to do. And therefore she gets into the danger of just having sex with people who could just use her or harm her.

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#3 The Face

Marilyn: The Last Hours, a reenactment drawn by the model of Amanda Lepore

When I drew this picture I thought about these beauty or glam shots they very often do of actors. And here in particular I was thinking about how Monroe was really duplicated by having her photograph taken I thought about it being a rip of of her skin, and by that Monroe got less and less, thematically speaking. And by, you know being photographed, she herself got less and less worth as a person because she was replicated via movie and photo . So that in the end all that was left was the sexual part of her. And by her i mean the creature Monroe and not Norma Jean. But Norma Jean was reduced to Monroe, and therefore the sex creature. And here I made the drawing very glammy and she looks kinda like she is on drugs. So this could also be seen as a reenactment of her last photo session.

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#2 The Travel

 

Marilyn: The Last Hours, a reenactment drawn by the model of Amanda Lepore

 

 

 

Like we all probably know Marilyn has travelled a lot during her life. She was torn between L.A. where she had to work and where she live  and New York where she felt hoe. She was not really that much of a Hollywood type of girl. So Maonroe was always on the travel. I choose her sitting because it reminds me of the view you get when ou look inside a cab. For my story, Monroe sits in the cab, and drives home to meet with someone.

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#1 - Cover

Marilyn: The Last Hours, a reenactment drawn by the model of Amanda Lepore

Since this is just the cover of my the series, there is not that much to it. But i wanted it to have a very Hollywood-esk look, like in the opening sequences of the old Hollywood movies when the names are flying in. Just like in Monroe's movie: "Gentleman prefer Blonde's". I choose this very simple B/W look because i think it befits the series status as an retroperspective best.  So stay tuned for the next picture of Marilyn: The Last Hours!