The History of Pop Art

Pop Art started in England as a critique of American consumerist capitalism. In America it became something closer to Duchamp, taking those found images and displaying them as art with no juxtaposition. Warhol took Cage's idea that the object has already art, and brought that into painting by making Campbell's soup cans look exactly like actual soup cans. He abandoned painting in the conventional sense altogether, instead creating brightly coloured screen prints based on celebrities like Elvis Presley,. Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Mommo.