In this album 'celebration' from madonna she wants to show that she can be the new Marylin Monroe, in copying her hair and especially her mole on top of her lip she is clearly refering back to M.Monroe.
The colours of the hair, lips and especially the eyes on the album cover are really 'funky', she wants to appear as a woman who can still have fun, thats why her album is called 'celebration' probably, she is doing disco music. Her facial expression is also exactly the same, its not the only picture or pose of Madonna where she tries to be like Marilyn Monroe. She tries to show with that album cover that she can be a glamour idol like M.Monroe.
Freddie
ReplyDeleteI feel that your analysis of the Robbie Williams album is better and more detailed than the MM one here. You should refer to my presenation on Fine Art and Album covers on sharepoint where we discussed as a class the significance of thei album cover: it sells because of the icon and intertexual refewrence to it.