{"id":619062,"date":"2026-06-03T15:02:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/619062\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T15:02:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:02:51","slug":"crystal-portrait-by-essex-artist-celebrates-monroe-at-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/619062\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystal portrait by Essex artist celebrates Monroe at 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A special portrait of the film icon Marilyn Monroe, created using 150,000 crystals, will be unveiled to mark the 100th anniversary of her birth. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Artist San B, from Brentwood in Essex, took more than 1,000 hours to build the collector&#8217;s piece, placing each crystal and individual two-carat diamonds by hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve strived to create a culturally significant, spiritual piece of living art for this milestone anniversary, with the intricate crystal mosaic drawing in the beholder to reflect on the enduring fascination with Monroe&#8217;s image,&#8221; the artist said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marilyn Monroe: Immortal will be displayed from Wednesday at the Iconic Images Gallery at Waterloo Place in Piccadilly, London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A special portrait of the film icon Marilyn Monroe, created using 150,000 crystals, will be unveiled to mark&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-619062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}