The Pop Art Movement

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This paper explains that, despite its association with Andy Warhol, Pop Art as a movement actually began in post-WWII Great Britain with the work of Richard Hamilton. The author points out that Pop Art, with its much more representational nature, was seen by some art historians as a reaction against the abstract expressionism movement. The paper reviews Pop Art leaders: Andy Warhol, Richard Hamilton, Robert Rauschenberg, David Hockey and Jasper Johns.

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"The Warhol exhibit of Campbell's Soup was so unsettling because looking at Pop Art like Warhol's was not looking into the heart of the artist, but looking into a mirror, a mirror of culture in which the spectator could gaze at him or herself, with all modern culture's sameness, carelessness, and vacuity. Thus Warhol's work said a great deal about not just modern culture, but the moment of art during the 1960. The era of the passionate artist, full of intensity and feeling was at an end."

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