1. JFK as an Icon
Figure 1 -Oil on Canvas Oil on canvas was done by Robert Rauschenberg it contains JFK, as the most dominant image, Pop artists, often portrayed famous people into there paintings and show them in different ways "Icons of the new reality came to be provided by pop art" JFK was by now one of the most famous and loved people in America, two years after his death he was already becoming iconic, and paintings like oil on canvas only reinforced this. The picture of him is Blue, which could connote sadness after his assassination also the red next to him could symbolise death or murder. ... Wa...
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