page_title: James Gill (artist)
section_title: Late works
hierarchical_section_title: James Gill (artist) / Life / Late works
caption_attribution_description: English: MM a Critique of Mass Iconology
context_page_description: James Francis Gill is an American artist and one of the protagonists of the Pop art movement.
  In 1962, the Museum of Modern Art included his Marilyn Tryptych into its permanent collection. At the peak of his career, Gill retired. He returned to the art scene around 30 years later.
context_section_description: Around 2010, Gill's late creative phase began, in which – in contrast to the dominance of political motives in the early works – the artist increased the focus on the presentation of classic Pop art icons such as John Wayne, Paul Newman or Marilyn Monroe. Gill created numerous works of the American film actress who, since his early success with the Marilyn Triptych (which was included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art even before the works of Andy Warhol) has exerted an unbroken fascination on him.
  Through personal acquaintances with Tony Curtis, Kirk Douglas, John Wayne, Jim Morrison, Martin Luther King and Marlon Brando, Gill as an artist has become witness of a whole generation. These celebrated public characters also marked the substance of Gill’s work, which he is trying to convey through various techniques and compositions.
  Today’s art of James Gill is a fusion of realism and abstraction. Photos still remain the foundation of his art. He now sets the image composition of his paintings in the computer and works consciously with mounting effects which he describes as Metamage or Mixed Media.
caption: MM a Critique of Mass Iconology - Serigraphy (2013)
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