Pop Art

Superstars of the 20th century

“A Positive dada”Duchamp’s The Fountain Warhol’s Campbell Soup Can

Inspiration from Impressionism

Monet Lichtenstein

Rejection of Abstract Expressionism

Jackson Pollock Reinhardt

De Kooning Rosenquist

Lichtenstein

Rosenquist

Warhol

Chuck Close

"Pop Art is:Popular (designed for a mass audience)

Transient (short-term solution)Expendable (easily forgotten)

Low CostMass produced

YoungWittySexy

GimmickyGlamorous

Big business...Yours!"

(Richard Hamilton - from a letter to Peter and Alison Smithson, 1957)