Warhol started a series of works of Marilyn Monroe shortly after her death in 1962, based on a publicity photo of Monroe, from her 1953 film Niagara.

“I guess it was the big plane crash picture, the front page of a newspaper: 129 DIE. I was also painting the Marilyns. I realized that everything I was doing must have been Death.”
Andy Warhol
In this series, I seeded the system with the same appropriated image as Warhol and explored hundreds of AI-assisted visual permutations of the iconic image.

I like to think Warhol would be a fan of generative art: the curation and exploration of ideaspace, the infinite variation, the gentle coaxing of parameters towards beauty…
The 23 selected below are available as NFTs at HicetNunc

Candied Marilyn 
Fjord Marilyn 
Fruits Du Mer Marilyn 
Glacial Marilyn 
Halide Marilyn 
Hitchcock Fever Dreams Marilyn 
Impasto Marilyn 
Inside Marilyn 
Macro Marilyn 
Manson Marilyn 
Masonic Marilyn 
Membrane Marilyn 
Micro Marilyn 
Memento Mori Marilyn 
Papal Marilyn 
Seed Marilyn 
Sherbet Marilyn 
Suburban Marilyn 
Telstar Marilyn 
The Map Is Not The Territory Marilyn 
Transistor Marilyn 
Tribble Marilyn 
Wet Centrefold Marilyn
