What both Lichtenstein and Johns exhibited was the freedom to use different content and different media to produce up feelings in a spectator that forced self-evaluation. Just looking at the stuff you see everyday and wondering is not what Pop Art is about, but rather, Pop Art is about an ability to self-criticize and to see one’s own culture for its very plainness, free of categorizations and free of hierarchy. Pop Art would do this by making art subject matter be accessible and ordinary. It is said that while the Abstract Expressionists sought to use their works to find the trauma of the soul, Pop Artists used their works to try and find the trauma in society in advertising, cartoons, and even signage or symbols. Lichtenstein’s work showed
