Liz

A glamorous face emerges from bold contrasts: deep black hair, pale skin, bright turquoise eyelids, and red lips set against a vivid coral background. Warhol reduces the features to simple shapes and sharp shadows, creating an image that feels both intimate and distant. The flatness of the colors highlights the tension between a person and the polished image the public sees.

Warhol made portraits like this to explore how fame turns individuals into symbols. By using a promotional photograph and repeating it across different versions, he shows how celebrity becomes a kind of visual currency, endlessly reproduced and consumed. The result is striking yet slightly unsettling. Beneath the elegance lies a hint of fragility, as if the carefully crafted image is holding something private and unseen.