Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein were both important pop exponents during the Pop Art movement. Both their styles where very different but encapsulated the point of Pop Art and its look on pop culture and consumerism. Warhol is best known for his piece’s ‘Marilyn Diptych’, ‘Coca-Cola Bottles’ and ‘Soup Cans’ and his technique of using silk screens to create repetitions of the same image. Roy Lichtenstein was known for his use of Ben Day dots and his large-scale cartoon paintings like ‘Wham!’ and ‘Big Painting VI’. Both artists were two of the most prominent U.S. Pop artists to come out of this time.
Andy Warhol began his art career being a commercial artist/illustrator for advertisement and this is where he got his ideas for pop art. He was i
His images often showed images from cartoons but he also made pieces from pop culture. He made ‘Big Painting VI’ which still used the Ben Day dots technique but wasn’t an image of a cartoon. The feeling of each image is very uplifting or action packed even if it does involve death. He does this by the use of bright, solid colour makes the image much more uplifting. Lichtenstein knew that most peoples experience of art was based on reproductions. To reproduce something you needed to deconstruct it and break it down to dots. By Lichtenstein enlarging these dots he was able expose the true meaning of each paintings and explore the idea of popular culture.
Roy Lichtenstein was another artist who is well known during this Pop Art period. He was trained in the traditional art
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