Once you got Pop,

you could never see

a sign the same
way again. And
once you thought
Pop, you could
never see America
the same way
again.

 Pop Art looks Out into the

world. It doesnt look like a
painting of something, it
looks like the thing itself
Roy Litchenstein
Pop Art - an art movement
in the late 1950s and 60s
that reflected everyday life
and common objects.
Blurred the line between
fine art and commercial art.
Brillo Soap Pads Box, 1964,

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Pop Artists did

images that anybody
walking down the
street could
recognize in a split
secondall the great
modern things that
the Abstract
Expressionists tried
so hard not to notice
at all.Gretchen Berg.

Andy Warhol, Green Coca-Cola Bottles, 1962

Used common images from everyday

culture

Advertisements
Consumer goods
Celebrities
Photographs
Roy Lichtenstein, Masterpiece, 1962

Comic strips

Billboards
Magazines
Newspapers

Campbell's Soup II, 1969,

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Reflected 60s culture

Used new materials like

Acrylic Paints
Plastics
Photographs
Fluorescent and
Metallic colors
Robert Rauschenberg, Retroactive II, 1963

As well as new technologies and methods:

Mass production
Fabrication
Photography
Printing
Serials
Claes Oldenburg, Floor Burger 1962,
Oldenburg

Claes

Was appealing to some,

while others thought it
made fun of common
people and their lives.
It was hard for some
people to understand
why Pop Artists were
painting cheap,
everyday objects, when
the function of art
historically was to
uphold and represent
cultures most valuable
ideals.
Listerine Bottle, 1963,
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