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Pop Art



             Two such artists, highly revered for their effect on the Pop Art movement, are Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstien. Amongst his famous prints of Cambell's Soup cans, self portraits, movie stars and other consumer items, Andy Warhol produced an art work called "Green Coca-Cola Bottles- (1962). .
             In this piece, Warhol's preferred method involved using silkscreens made from found photographic images, which he laid directly onto the canvas and printed with synthetic polymer paint. He aimed to create multiple images with sharp and definite outlines, and sections of bold, flat colour, less easily achieved by painting. Printmaking most effectively mimics the character of product advertising and design in its bright and simple shapes and colours with little to no tonal variation, definite lines, and overall clean attractive.
             appearance. "Green Coca-Cola Bottles- offers a large canvas of the repeated stacked prints of a coca-cola bottle. Small differences in the black detail of the bottles created by the minor unpredictability of screen printing can only be found at closer inspection, while green colour variations are more obvious and most likely intentional. .
             Silk screen printing enables the artist to repeat an image with little effort. Warhol chose this concept to reflect the mass consumption of productivity which had recently emerged in America. The number of copied prints and the repetition of the process itself shares it's theme with many of his other works, (eg. Marilyn Diptych 1962, Front and Back Dollar Bills 1962, Natalie 1962 and Marilyn Monroe's Lips 1962). Coca-Cola is a phenomenally popular product and comes second only to water as the most consumed drink. Warhol chose to use this as a symbol of mass consumer culture, and continued to rebel against traditional "high- art.
             "My image is a statement of the symbols of the harsh, impersonal products and brash materialistic objects on which America is built today.


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