Can you celebrate consumer culture at the same time that you critique it? Pop artists thought so.
c. 1956–1980 C.E.
Can you celebrate consumer culture at the same time that you critique it? Pop artists thought so.
c. 1956–1980 C.E.
The term “Pop Art” first emerged in Great Britain after World War II, but the approach can be traced back even further.
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“LOVE” is a great example of how Robert Indiana incorporated cultural references into his work to address important social and political issues
While Hamilton's Just What is It… is considered to be among the most foundational works of Pop Art, this small collage was initially not created as a work of art.
By laying bare the relationship between commerce and art, Warhol nullified the idea of being a sell out.
This war machine seemed obsolete before it was finished; Rosenquist explains why he painted it with SpaghettiOs.
By putting this in the museum, we see this as art. But what if it weren’t there?
How do you make a nineteenth-century masterpiece ask twentieth-century questions?
Oldenburg’s wonderfully floppy, sloppy cake is filthy, humorous, and not at all edible.
Marilyn’s floating head, garishly colored, functions as the Virgin Mary in a Byzantine icon.
This sculpture, installed on the Yale campus during Vietnam War protests, was never meant to be permanent.
Warhol used a quasi-mechanical process of silkscreen to reproduce Marilyn Monroe’s familiar face again and again.
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While the movement of her body, buoyancy of her drapery and beating of her wings reflect the energy characteristic of the Hellenistic era, the artist and patron remain unknown. Learn more about this sculptural masterpiece with the President and CEO of the Musée du Louvre.