... many times with attempting to mock and to celebrate American middle-class values by erasing the difference between popular and high culture. Warhol did many silk-screens on canvas; he also did acrylic on canvas. His medium was either newsprint of photography. The main point that Warhol wanted to get ... his reputation." (Lippard pg.85) Warhol was taking the artists out of the Coca Cola and Brillo Box manufacturers. He seemed to like the silk-screening because it showed sloppiness, which displayed casualness. Warhol could play around with many different colours and it would still have a ...

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... composer John Cage.# "Pop acted in the gap between art an life" - Robert Rauschenberg. Pop artists rebelled against abstract expressionism in three ways. Firstly they used impersonal techniques such as silk screen printing - the art was no longer painterly it was unemotional and detached. Secondly the relationship of Pop art to mass production. The techniques used in Pop art were that ... and personality of the artist. The subject matter and images of Pop Art, taken from mass culture, were familiar and included such things as beer bottles, soup cans, comic strips, road signs and similar...

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