Pop Art described, in quotes of Andy Warhol & Roy Lichtenstein + images American art history

American Pop Art described / explained, in selected artist quotes of Andy Warhol & Roy Lichtenstein + art images - a free resource for students, pupils and teachers in American art history

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The selected quotes of the two famous Pop Art-artists Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein describe describe very well their artistic life and creation of art in the world of Pop Art in the U.S.
American Pop Art was the most practical and pragmatic art movement in the United States. It was in fact Art & Life together, like earlier Dada.

The two famous American artists give us a view into the kitchen of Pop Art; they portray moreover the youngster America society of the 1960’s - 70’s. Warhol with his prints & the ‘Factory’ - Lichtenstein with the ‘comics and strips’ in his painting art.
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Selection of some artist quotes on American Pop Art by Warhol & Lichtenstein - as a short impression of their extended artist quotes in the PDF:

• ’The reason I’m painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do. - Quote of Andy Warhol, in “What is Pop Art? - Answers from 8 Painters, Part 1”, in Art News Nov. 1962

• Pop Art is the use of commercial art as a subject matter in painting, I suppose. It was hard to get a painting that was despicable enough so that no one would hang it – everybody was hanging everything… (New York, 1950’s) .The one thing everyone hated was commercial art… - Quote of Roy Lichtenstein (1963), in 'What is Pop Art?.. ‘Art News 67’, Nov. 1963

• ’I paint directly – then it’s said to be an exact copy… .It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. - Quote of Roy Lichtenstein (1963), in 'What is Pop Art?.. in ‘Art News 67’, Nov. 1963

• ’…to us, it was the new Art. Once you ‘got’ Pop, you could never see a sign the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again. The moment you label something… …you can never go back again to seeing it unlabeled.’ - Quote of Andy Warhol, in ‘Warhol in his own words’ ( 1963 – 1987)
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  selection of free art-sources on American Pop Art:

  • extended description of Pop Art, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_art
  • selected artist-quotes on American Pop Art, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pop_art
  • images of the painting art of Renoir, on Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/paintings-by-style/pop-art
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]