Andy Warhol Research Paper

Pop Art is an art movement that began in Britain during the mid-1950s. It began to get popular in the United States by the late 1950s. Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton were the first to influence Pop Art in Britain while Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns were part of the early years in the United States. Pop Art uses parts of mass culture such as advertising, comic books and everyday cultural objects. It often uses images from advertising. Pop Art is considered to be a reaction to and expansion of the main ideas of Abstract Expressionism.

Andy Warhol was already a successful commercial illustrator in New York before he started selling art. It is believed that it was his work as a commercial illustrator where he learned how to influence popular taste. Warhol built his reputation as a Pop Artist using screen printed images. Even though he continued to paint some, in 1965 he officially retired from painting to work on making experimental files. He was shot and nearly died in 1968 by an actress who had been in some of his films.

Roy Lichtenstein was born in Manhattan, New York. Painting was first just a hobby for him and he would paint portraits of musicians at jazz concerts. He spent a lot of his career teaching art at

The repeated screen printing created slightly different images each time so none of the pictures are exactly the same. Because Marilyn Monroe was so popular at the time, critics interpreted the images of her face done over and over again, but each being different, in many different ways. Roy Lichtenstein’s Drowning Girl, is also known as Secret Hearts and I Don’t Care! I’d Rather Sink. It is a scene from a comic strip where it focused in on one part of the scene. It is painted but done to look just like part of a comic strip picture. It even has a thought bubble showing what the girl is