Pop ArtArt based on modern popular culture and the

mass media. Had its origins in England in the 1950s and made

its way to the United States during the 1960s.

Famous Artists of the Pop Art Movement

• Richard Hamilton (British, 1922-)• Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987)• Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997)• Claes Oldenburg (American, 1929-) (3D work)• Jasper Johns (American, 1930-) • Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925-).

Richard HamiltonKnown for his powerful and inventive work that commented on the state of British postwar consumer culture, Hamilton was probably most famous for "Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?“ from 1956.

Interior, 1964. Richard Hamilton

Andy WarholWhen Warhol first exhibited Campbell’s Soup Cans, in 1962, each of the thirty-two canvases rested on a shelf mounted on the wall, like groceries in a store. The number of paintings corresponds to the varieties of soup then sold by the Campbell Soup Company.

Cow, 1966. Andy Warhol

10 Marilyns, 1967.

Roy LichtensteinLichtenstein based many of his early paintings on imagery he found in comic books. The source for this work is Run for Love! published by DC Comics in 1962, the cover of which the artist significantly altered to arrive at the finished composition.

Drowning Girl. 1963.

Live Ammo (Ha! Ha! Ha!) Panel 4 of 4, 1962

Crying Girl, 1964

Jasper Johns

The Map (1978) by Jasper Johns

Robert Rauschenberg

Most distant visible part of the sea / Umbrellas. Original offset litho. with collage, embossing, and pencil, 1983.