Nine Jackies

For Immediate Release

ANDY WARHOL

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has revealed its latest piece in its’ Modern Art section. The recent piece displayed in the Modern Art section is entitled “Nine Jackies” by Andy Warhol.

The 1964 “Nine Jackies,”(1983.606.14-22,) presented at the MET is one of many pieces by Andy Warhol dedicated to Jackie Kennedy Onassis. “Nine Jackies,” is an acrylic and silkscreen on canvas display, categorized in the pop art genre.

“Nine Jackies’,” original photo is of Jackie Kennedy Onassis moments before those famous shots were fired, killing John F. Kennedy. The image of Jackie is repeated in a precise way to show how ubiquitous and significant that moment was in history. The photo can be assumed to be the last time Jackie smiled before that historical moment occurred. Through time the color blue has signified sadness, loyalty, faith, and heaven. The opted shade of blue implies a sense of sadness to come and even puts a heartrending weight on your shoulders. As the color blue fades from the recurring nine photos, over the right shoulder of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, the face of John F. Kennedy becomes more apparent. This piece is definitely something to see on your own to further understand the beauty and repetition of Andy Warhol’s “Nine Jackies”.

Andy Warhol was very specific in selecting to repeat the image nine times, as Warhol uses the number nine in other pieces of his work as well. Though we do not know Warhol’s symbolism behind using the number nine, the number nine is a known symbolic number. The number nine has been said to represent pain or sadness. As well nine come from the Hebrew word v’Tetay’-shah [tish-aw] meaning to look at or gaze at.

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) has been said to be a pioneer of the Pop Art movement as well as one of the most influential prolific artists of the 20^th century. He is famous for his Campbell Soup cans, and has been inspired to do pieces on Marilyn Monroe, Elvis, and Queen Elizabeth.

“Nine Jackies,” shows a time when the public was obsessed with this tragic event, through years the public has suppressed this moment and this piece has been installed to pay tribute to Jackie Kennedy Onassis.

TAKEN review.

The title of the movie Taken in it self is nearly a spoiler for the audience. When first introduced you can already assume aren’t going to be watching a romantic comedy. This movie directed by Pierre Morel although entertaining isn’t going to be that action flick to break the mold.

Liam Neeson shows us other talent we haven’t seen in him before in this action film. He actually holds a candle to his character of Bryan Mills. Bryan Mills is a former spy who retired from the game to be apart of his daughter’s life. Maggie Grace playing the role of Kim, Bryan’s daughter goes to France with a girlfriend of hers to following the tour of their favorite band.

Though the films storyline is not so complex it does have great visual entrapment. Shortly after the girls arrive in France, three men take Kim’s friend, as Kim on the phone with her father watches from across the house. Liam Neeson’s character advises his daughter to go into the next bedroom and

get under the bed; he then goes on to tell her she is going to be taken. One of the men pick up the phone and Mills tells the man that, “If you let my daughter go now, that’ll be the end of it. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.”

The rest of the movie is based on him finding his daughter. With his ties to people in the French government a task seemingly ever impossible to the average person is something that this man, Bryan Mills doesn’t put past him self.

The basing of this movie is of European Human Trafficking. Where innocent American girls arriving in Europe seeming entirely untainted by anything of evil are now the center of it. Introducing this film to America shows the dangers most don’t think of when traveling overseas.

With imperiling action scenes Bryan Mills continues to take on a many array of repulsive villains and show them whose boss.

Pierre Morel definitely did this movie justice. It’s a good movie with a decent plot line, with good visuals. It’s Taken!