In the 1950's United States, Robert Rauschenberg created collages constructed from household objects such as quilts and pillows, and Jasper Johns had a series of paintings depicting American flags and bull's-eye targets. ... The appearance of simplicity in this painting was painstakingly done - thousands of dots of simple colours (red, blue yellow, black, white). ...
Andy Warhol, the American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and film maker was born in Pittsburgh on August 6, 1928, shortly afterwards settling in New York. The only son of immigrant, Czech parents, Andy finished high school and went on to the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, graduating in 1949 with hopes of becoming an art teacher in the public schools. While in Pittsburgh, he worked for a department store arranging window displays, and often was asked to simply look for ideas in fashion magazines . While recognizing the job as a waste of time, he recalls later that the fashio...
