Pop Art

Pop Art turned form the highly personal abstraction of Abstract Expressionism to images from popular culture. Pop Art was a movement from late 1950s to the early 1960s, predominantly in London and New York. Pop Artists looked at popular culture for their source of inspiration.
Andy Warhol established and enhanced the status of Pop Art. Warhol's screen-print, "Green Coca Cola" 1962 consists of multiple images of coca cola. By the repetition of such a banal object, the audience is reminded of mass production, which was a reflection of their modern day consumer society. Repetition and lack of foreground, middle ground and background has resulted in loss of reality in the artwork which challenges traditional art. It is obvious that Warhol makes a conceptual comparison between celebrities, like Marilyn Manrow, Elvis Presley and Jacqueline Kennedy and commercial products like Coca Cola in his artworks, implying that they are all just corporation products intended for mass consumption.
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