Andy Warhol's Popular Art

Page 135 of our humanities book states "Pop Art, the quintessential style of the Information Age, embraced the imagery of consumerism and celebrity culture mediated by television, film, and magazines." I think this is the perfect description of what Pop Art is whether it is in something like music or such as the paintings of Andy Warhol. In his Pop Art, Andy Warhol used things common to the general public such as cans of soup. Pop Music of today is much the same way. The 2011 song "On the Floor" by Jennifer Lopez incorporates lines that are easy for the general public to relate to such as the line "I'm like Inception, I play with your brain" referring to the recent, popular movie Inception.

Andy Warhol, who was a pioneer of American Pop Art, used very common things, which could often be found in a supermarket, as the images for his art. A couple of his most famous paintings were of the Campbell's soup cans and the Coca-Cola bottles. I think his paintings were a work of genius. Of course they are nothing that the average person today could not easily create with the aid of a camera and a copy machine, but that is not the point. I respect Andy Warhol, and I believe he is included in our Humanities book because he is an innovator. While I am not a fan of Picasso, I believe that likewise, he should be included in our book because he created a new form of art, abstract art. Therefore, I think Warhol should be in our book because he was a pioneer of Pop Art, and I like his works because they are of things that are easy for me to relate to.