Andy Warhol Pop Art

Pop Art is a popular art movement that came from Britain in the mid 1950’s. It later came to the United States around the same time period. A lot of artists moved up into the pop art stage. For example Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton were artists from Britain. United States pop artists were Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Pop art was often used back then in newspapers and magazines and advertising. This created a challenge to artists who used traditions of fine art because Pop art used imagery from popular culture.
Andy Warhol was a famous pop artist from New York. He was born on August 6, 1928. He died a while later on February 22, 1987. He came up from a Middle Eastern European family in Pittsburgh. He was the one of the most successful highly paid commercial illustrator. This was all before he began to make art. He is very famous for his screen printing of Marilyn Monroe and soup cans. He became synonymous with Pop art due to some of his work.He was one of Pop art’s most famous artists. He was famous for the Campbell’s Soup can label. On the label he had many pictures of Marilyn …show more content…
Here are some ways that they were alike. They both came from the same art movement which was pop art. They both came from America and studied the same type art. They both based their work on commercial and advertising. Both used a method of screenprinted images. Another way that they were alike is that they often used uneven inking in their work. They were also different in many ways as well. Lichtenstein focused more on comic strip type and Warhol focused on commercial illustrating. Warhol was more of an older artist than Lichtenstein was. Warhol came from a Eastern European family and Lichtenstein came from a Jewish family. Most people think of Warhol’s work as more of a screen type look. Unlike Warhol, Lichtenstein was like comic books. They also used different types of painting