Walking around the MCA, capturing all the great art pieces in your mind before time is up, makes you appreciate all the love and hard work the artists put into their pieces. The one that stood out to me the most would be Jackie Frieze by Andy Warhol, a piece that you have to come back to, to fully grasp the feeling of the piece. It's a large piece with more than one black and gold silk print of Jackie Kennedy, in all the photos she looks very, sad except for two where she looks happy.
Warhol's use of silk screen paintings on mass media images, always seems to capture something more about the person. In his prints, he's able to bring some sort of truth out of the subject just through the piece. I loved skimming back and forth over the Jackie Frieze piece, because her happy pictures were at each end, and in-between was sadness or confusion on her face.
I really loved that Marisol and Warhol's pieces were put together, for they were both independently revolutionary artists in the 1960s. Marisol and her elaborate wooden sculptures stand out, whereas Andy Warhol's pop out with all his vibrant pop-art colors. Their focused work works hand-in-hand and makes you view their similar yet different approaches to portraiture, both using repeating subjects, creating relatable pieces.
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