Pop Art was influenced by Dada, a movement in the 1920's that "ridiculed the seriousness of contemporary Parisian art and, more broadly, the political and cultural situation that had brought war to Europe."

Title: After The Party 183 (FS II.183)

Edition: Edition of 1,000. Numbered on the lower right and contains stamp from the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

Medium: Screenprint on Arches 88 Paper

Year: 1979

This print depicts the aftermath of a dinner party. Warhol highlights the scattered array of drinking glasses, wine bottles, and other dishware with rainbow outlines, accentuating the objects inherent frenzy lifestyle. "Andy was known for abundant partying, and After the Party illustrates the chaos inherent to that lifestyle. Based on a black and white photograph, Warhol uses the colorful to gradient to animate the still life. This rainbow roll drawing line varies from print to print. After the Party is exemplary of Warhol’s unique pop art style, and comes framed to museum standards."

After the Party 183 depicts scattered glasses and plates brought to life by rainbow gradients highlighting the scattered objects. There is chaos in this piece, a feeling of excess, due to the "reflective quality and haphazard arrangement of the glasses, the bright hues that outline the items, and the manner in which the print was created and aligned."

Year: 1963

Medium: Oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Title: Drowning Girl

Size: 38 x 27 In

Medium: Offset lithograph on lightweight, white wove paper

Year: 1982

Title: I Love Liberty

Medium: Casein on canvas

Year: 1962

Title: Coca-Cola [3]

In 1985 the Coca-Cola Company received widespread attention due to the introduction of a new Coke formula. Time Magazine turned to the artistic talents of Warhol, they asked him to use New Coke as
a potential cover art for one of their stories. Warhol poured the drink onto paper to create a spill effect and took polaroids of the can as a guide before drawing the artwork. Ultimately, the magazine did not run the story/ artwork as Coca-Cola returned to its original formula.

Andy Warhol’s large, sleek, black and white portrait of the iconic Coca-Cola bottle is one of the first great icons of American Pop Art as well as being the painting that set Andy on his creative path.
"I just paint things I always thought were beautiful, things you use every day and never think about."

–Andy Warhol

Drowning Girl is derived from a 1962 DC Comics panel, it borrows from Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa and elements of modernist artists Jean Arp and Joan Miró. Lichtenstein both accepts popular culture and negates pre-existing artistic expectations that have foundations in classical painting. "Lichtenstein does this by using a painting technique called Ben-Day dots to create the illusion that the image is “mechanically reproduced” "

The ‘Drowning Girl’ depicts a young female closed in by wild, waves visibly distressed by the circumstances she is in. "Also indicated by her outstretched hand and tightly shut eyes with tears seeping out." The thought bubble that appears above her head makes the audience aware she experienced heart break towards her lover and that heart break caused her great suffering and loss of trust. This idea of isolation and distrust is also advocated by the colour palette Lichtenstein used; it consists of a majority of blue gradients. Blue often contains the connotation of sadness and despair, hence emphasising the subject matter of this image.

"This innovatively composed image was produced in conjunction with Norman Lear’s I Love Liberty celebration, held on February 22, 1982, in Los Angeles, and broadcast in March of the same year."

"Depicting the Statue of Liberty, “I Love Liberty” melds the graphic hallmarks of Lichtenstein’s iconic style with one of the most recognizable symbols in American culture, producing an intriguing modern variation on an image steeped in history."

Andy Warhol, original name Andrew Warhola, (born August 6, 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died February 22, 1987, New York, New York), was an American artist and filmmaker, he was also a leading exponent in the Pop art movement of the 1960's whose mass-produced art popularized commercial culture in the United States.

Roy Lichtenstein, (born October 27, 1923, New York, New York, U.S.—died September 29, 1997, New York City), American painter who was a founder and practitioner of Pop art, he was best known for his boldly-colored parodies of comic strips and advertisements.

Roy Lichtenstien was Inspired by advertisements and comic strips, Lichtenstein's bright, graphic works parodied American popular culture and the art world itself.

Nathan Gluck was an artist and graphic designer in New York. He encouraged and helped Warhol with illustration and design in his commercial work.

"Warhol collected works by Marcel Duchamp long before the two ever met. Decades before Warhol, Duchamp challenged the definition of art and the place of artists in society. Duchamp did a series of what he called, readymades, which were ordinary objects that he designated works of art, long before Warhol did the same with everyday household items."

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