This document discusses the key elements and influences of Pop Art including how it celebrated popular culture and consumerism, featured superheroes and comics, used techniques like painting, silkscreening and Ben Day dots, and had political messages. Artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein are mentioned, with Lichtenstein known for his work "Wham" from 1963 and Warhol popularizing facsimile as an art form and making ordinary things iconic by featuring celebrities and political leaders as subjects.

1. What makes an image
“iconic”?

2. What is
being
celebrated
in this art
form?
Which
artistic
influences
are
apparent?

3. Why were
comics and
superheroes
featured in
some Pop Art?
How do
superheroes fit
our idea of
popular
culture?

4. Different
techniques were
used to create
Pop Art, including
painting, soft
sculpture, silk-
screening, and
the use of Ben
Day dots.
How did Roy
Lichtenstein use
this technique
and why?

6. Political messages
can be found
throughout the pop
art movement.

7. Lichtenstein’s “Wham” (1963) is one of his most recognizable works.

9. Society and culture
were reflected in Pop
Art. Pop Art became
integrated into society.

11. Pop Art celebrated
consumerism as part
of the culture.
Andy Warhol made
the ordinary iconic.

13. Facsimile was
an art form
popularized by
Andy Warhol.

14. Celebrities and political leaders were
common subjects.