Pop Art was an international movement; it symbolized and acknowledged the growth of new "popular culture." Pop Art was recognized as a style that outdid art on the canvas to include everyday life. The emerging mass-media culture of advertising, movies and television, and consumer goods would all take part in the subject for this new kind of art. Many artists jumped in on this exciting and enjoyable opportunity to have some fun with popular everyday activities in this new movement of art. One man that successfully had a shot at is was Andy Warhol.
Andy Warhol was born in 1928 at Pittsburgh, U.S. of Czechoslovak immigrant parents. Throughout his life Warhol worked for magazine companies and had a big role in the media in general. Warhol then moved to New York and invented the blotted line technique, which lead to an interest in the serigraph technique also referred as silk-screening. .
Warhol was an American, and did all his work in New York, U.S. Warhol started his career in Pop Art around 1960 and was active in his art and filmmaking until the late 80's. He then experienced some health problems and died as a result of an operation. Considering that Warhol was a Pop artist, he did his art on objects that were popular to the public of everyday living. Warhol had subjects like Campbell's soup cans, Brillo soap pads, dollar bills, and Coca Cola bottles. He had portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor, and Jackie Kennedy. .
"When a interviewer asked him why he started painting these cans [soup cans], Warhol gave a typical but not very enlightening reply: "because I used to drink it. I used to have the same lunch everyday for twenty years I guess, the same thing over and over again."" (Leslie pg.58) .
He was recognized many times with attempting to mock and to celebrate American middle-class values by erasing the difference between popular and high culture.
