What good is it being Marilyn MonroeMartina Rall

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe
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“What good is it being Marilyn Monroe“, 2013 - Mixed Media: Photo, Typography, Digital.

 A series of coincidences brought Martina Rall to explore and re-think the inherent nature of her work and provides a practical meaning to the American poet William Carlos Williams' quote: “The artist is always and forever painting only one thing: a self-portrait.” In 2009, she started her mixed media series “Being Marilyn Monroe”: Icon-Portraits, portraying herself an inspiring modern-day icon such as Marilyn Monroe, Frida Kahlo, Audrey Hepburn, Maria Callas, Romy Schneider, Michael Jackson and Grace Kelly.

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 Martina Rall felt attracted by Marilyn’s beauty and sensitivity as sex symbol and orphan child, in search of love and a home her whole life through: “To men, she was an object of irresistible desire, because at the same time she expressed that extra feminine ‘guard me and protect me’. But Marilyn was more than her appearance. She never left home without Rilke’s poems. Her tragedy is that she made herself disappear behind Marilyn.”

 

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Martina Rall

Born in Germany, Martina Rall studied Italian and German literature as well as linguistics, and later on Fine Arts at the Academy of Arts in Nürtingen. She worked first as graphic designer until the mid-90′ before she devoted herself to her artistic career. As a multi-faceted artist, she uses different techniques and materials in her artworks:  graphics, paintings, photographs and writings.

From Pop Art to Cindy Sherman photography or Russian cinematography, the inspiration behind her work combines an interesting blend of artistic expressions.

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Her mixed media series are influenced by the work of surrealist female artists like Frida Kahlo and Niki de St. Phalle as well as by Italian author Luigi Pirandello’s post-modernist approach on identity theory.

Her passion for portraying creative working people leads to a second series: ‘Artists in Action’ portraying European artists from various fields:  musicians, authors and actors at work. The series focuses on the magic moment in which art and the artist merge into one, but also explore the creative process and the fascination of art.

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All unique artworks such as painting and sculpture are original artworks signed by the artist. Our limited edition photographic prints are museum quality archival pigment prints, numbered and delivered with a signed Certificate of Authenticity. Prints are professionally framed or mounted and securely packaged for delivery. We take great care of offering the appropriate finish options, as we believe that the presentation of each artwork is essential in making it enjoyable and is part of providing a final piece of art, ready to hang on your wall.