Statistically, Pop art could be defined by simple and crisp lines, oversized images, which often reflects the copies and the style often seen in media, collages of popular images, bright or saturated colours or recreating the subject in several pieces. Andy Warhol, one of the icons Pop art artists, was chosen as a symbol of that movement. He was one of the most successful and commercial illustrators in New York, because of his screen-printed images of soup cans, Marilyn Monroe and sensational newspaper stories. His work was all about elevating an ordinary product to the light for the purpose of selling it as an object made for masses. According to the book “Pop Art” by Tilman Osterwold, Andy Warhol 'not only transforms mass-produced object and information from the mass media into art but turns his own art into mass-produced object'. On the other hand, the main thing which made him recognisable is …show more content…
It was made in 1962 after Marilyn suddenly died from an overdose of sleeping pills. He took one of the black and white publicity photos of Monroe from the “Niagara” movie. He created series of the same image with different colours. He used a gold coloured background which represents her legendary status. Those pictures were continuously printed in newspapers and magazines, elevating her to icon status. Therefore we can summarise Pop Art as a movement which depicts objects and scenes from everyday life and employs techniques from commercial art and popular illustration. Another art movement is Photorealism, similar to Pop Art it disputes previous hierarchies deeming what should or should not be a worthy subject to depict. Furthermore, like Photo-realists and Pop artists, they were both interested in breaking down hierarchies of the appropriate subject matter by including everyday scenes of commercial life and themes of machinery objects of such as shops, cars, trucks, motorcycles and