Artist Andy Warhol

As one of the acknowledged leaders of the modern "pop" tradition, Warhol brought new and interesting insights into the world of modern art. "Pop art refers not so much to the art as to the new attitudes that led to it, principally an acceptance of the prevalence of mass art media," asserted Lawrence Alloway, the critic generally credited with coining the term. In other words, the pop artist turns to his surroundings to find art all around him in the everyday images that he finds in magazines and on television. Andy Warhol was one of the most successful and memorable of all of the pop artists that sprung up magically at the same time. Warhol, born Andrew Warhola to Czech-born working-class parents, a man dedicated to building an "emotion detachment that was read by some as the ultimate co

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, while the bottom shows a repetition of two women; Mrs. McCarty and Mrs. Brown. The two women are smiling, almost girlish in their middle-age, while the copy under the photos reads, "Seized shipment: Did a leak kill Mrs. McCarthy and Mrs. Brown?" The tins of tuna represent the mundane, and the women represent the average person, causing the painting to overstate the certain death brought on by mediocrity. The painting almost pokes fun by blowing out of proportion a simple but tragic error. Not all of the "disaster paintings" are as light, however. Instead, their repetition forces the viewer who would normally turn away from such images, to focus down from what appears to be an abstract from a distance, to study the image that makes up the whole. "In a canvas with 15 electric chairs floating in sliver-blue void, Warhol traps your eye, forcing it to confront this fearsome artifact in a powerful aesthetic algebra - 15 times 1 equals and emotion that's not easy to name, but that only art can create" (Kroll 65). To Warhol, then, art was many things. As we have seen, Warhol was less bound by the intrinsic traditions of the past, both critical and popular, and was able to breach the road between art and mind. To Warhol "The
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