This perspective being the realization and acceptance of the twentieth century’s commercial culture that emerged out of the Second World War in a need by the public to reinvent the way they see their ordinary lives. When President Roosevelt formed the Works Progress Administration in 1935 to help artists through the depression, it had a stimulating affect on the New York art scene. Artists could meet together and discuss, and soon they saw that you didn’t need to go to Paris to paint, the artist simply needed to embrace his own confidence and knowledge and experience to produce fine art. Many European painters had been in New York at this point participating in the New York art scene, so when they return

Andy Warhol was greatly influenced by the authorities statements Lichenstein’s work seemed to make. It caused him to change his style from his initial ‘nervous’ lines and understated colors, to a more dramatic interpretation of his images. Warhol generally used silk screening to portray upbeat, ironic images. He embraced the modern culture by commercializing his art. “An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have but that he-for some reason-thinks it would be a good idea to give them.” Obviously Andy Warhol didn’t follow his own philosophies, but it helps explain his total acceptance of the capitalist world he was living in.

The artists chose to incorporate the mass media and this consumerism into their art, both celebrating it and critiquing it. These artists painted for the now, they didn’t use an object, whether it be a symbol, person, or situation, until it was already well known to its audience in its usual setting. They highlighted not the commonplace in a pa

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