JMarilyn Monroe & Art: The Forgotten Digital Portrait 🎨✨
Few people know that Marilyn Monroe, beyond being a Hollywood icon, played an unexpected role in the early intersection of art and technology. In 1962, just months before her passing, a pioneering computer-generated portrait of Marilyn was created—making her one of the first celebrities to be digitally rendered in history!
🔹 The Backstory: At Bell Labs, scientists were experimenting with early computer imaging. Using a photograph of Marilyn, they developed an algorithm to reproduce her face as a pixelated image, one of the first-ever digital artworks.
🔹 The Influence: This experiment paved the way for digital art as we know it today. Decades later, Marilyn remains a muse—not only for painters like Andy Warhol but also for AI-generated and digital artworks in the NFT and RWA art movements.
💡 Imagine if Marilyn had lived to see AI-generated portraits of herself on plexiglass, authenticated via blockchain—perhaps she would have been one of the first collectors!
🎭 Her legacy lives on, forever captured at the crossroads of art and technology.
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Icons of America: Legendary Faces Through Time
This collection, titled « Icons of America, » captures the essence of eight legendary American personalities, each representing a pivotal role in the cultural, political, or social landscape of the United States. The black-and-white portraits, styled after the classic Harcourt method, focus on dramatic lighting and the distinctive facial features that made these figures instantly recognizable. Each portrait presents these icons in a way that emphasizes their unique character and lasting impact on American history.