Pop

Harry Fonseca, Two Coyotes with Flags

hamilton grid — 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.

Richard Hamilton, Just What is It That ...

by Dr. Allison Young

At this party, everyone has the same face and seems profoundly alone.

Marisol, The Party
by Dr. Halona Norton-Westbrook, Toledo Museum of Art and Dr. Steven Zucker

With this canvas, Coca-Cola [3], Warhol becomes Warhol.

Warhol, Coca-Cola [3]
by Alejo Benedetti, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Dr. Steven Zucker

By laying bare the relationship between commerce and art, Warhol nullified the idea of being a sell out.

The Case for Andy Warhol
by The Art Assignment

This war machine seemed obsolete before it was finished; Rosenquist explains why he painted it with SpaghettiOs.

James Rosenquist, F-111
by The Museum of Modern Art

By putting this in the museum, we see this as art. But what if it weren’t there?

Why is this art? Andy Warhol, Campbell’s ...
by Sal Khan and Dr. Steven Zucker

How do you make a nineteenth-century masterpiece ask twentieth-century questions?

Roy Lichtenstein, Rouen Cathedral Set V
by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker

Oldenburg’s wonderfully floppy, sloppy cake is filthy, humorous, and not at all edible.

Claes Oldenburg, Floor Cake
by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker

Marilyn’s floating head, garishly colored, functions as the Virgin Mary in a Byzantine icon.

Andy Warhol, Gold Marilyn Monroe
by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker

This sculpture, installed on the Yale campus during Vietnam War protests, was never meant to be permanent.

Claes Oldenburg, Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks
by Dr. Mya Dosch

Warhol used a quasi-mechanical process of silkscreen to reproduce Marilyn Monroe’s familiar face again and again.

Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych
by Tina Rivers Ryan

Pop seems to glorify popular culture, but a second look reveals a critique of post-war marketing and consumerism.

Pop Art
by Dr. Virginia B. Spivey

Since 1960, artists have come up with countless ways to engage audiences on a huge spectrum of topics.

Contemporary Art, an introduction
by Dr. Virginia B. Spivey