Immortalized in paintings, photographs, sculptures and even holograms, Queen Elizabeth II was the subject of artistic fascination for seven decades.
Nick Glass, CNN
Warhol's silkscreen prints of Marilyn are among the first he ever published, executed in the months immediately after her death in 1962. His, however, are among his last and are less well-known. They were produced in 1985, as part of his"Reigning Queens" series, just two years before his own death. As the British historian David Cannadine once noted, the Queen was"probably the most visually depicted and represented individual ever to have existed across the entire span of human history." She reigned for so long that we can only hazard a guess as to the number of images.Propaganda images of Mao Zedong were much disseminated during his lifetime, but he was always made to look the same: the benevolent founding father of the Chinese nation.
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