... in most of his photograph's we are supposed to believe he's the hero of the age" It is possible that Warhol chose to appropriate the Kennedy image because it had been used so much. Warhol rendered JFK a cultural icon, who's image was familiar to the entire nation. Warhol uses red, which has connotations of Blood ... and murder it could also be a suggestion, that Kennedy had a darker side than his common public persona, the blue used in the image contrasts with the red to make the picture, hard to focus on, although ... , apart from being president he became a symbol for Americas most ch...

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