Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein

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American Pop Art developed from the newly found self confidence with which American art asserted itself in the fifties against European influence. The subject matter was Americanism itself in terms of the idea of progress, the media industry, and the star cult.

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"American Pop Art developed from the newly found self confidence with which American art asserted itself in the fifties against European influence. The subject matter was Americanism itself in terms of the idea of progress, the media industry, and the star cult. The previous generation had brought forth a new tendency toward realism using contemporary subject matter. The development of the style took place in several phases. The first was the pre Pop phases painters took their leave of Abstract Expressionism. Then came the heyday of Pop Art, a phase that saw the emergence of a number of important artists whose work was rooted in the fifties and partly founded on experience acquired in commercial art, design and poster painting. They quickly achieved success and recognition as a new art movement with exhibitions, Happenings, theater ..."

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