Subject Matter * produced realistic variations of well-known, everyday objects * throughout the course of his pop art era he focused on four main subjects: product paintings, cartoon paintings, movie stars, and death. * product paintings- showed popular consumer items that were familiar to the average American person, such as Brillo soap pads, Coca-Cola bottles, and the most famous of all, Campbell’s soup cans. * chose products such as these because they were top-selling products in the United States and they were considered important, useful, and economical by consumers * Warhol’s second type of paintings was drawn from comic strips and comic books. Examples of these cartoon paintings include Dick Tracy (1961) and Superman (1960). * began doing productions of Hollywood movie stars, the most well-known being those of Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and Elizabeth Taylor * Politics and newsworthy events and imagery were also captured in his art., The Birmingham riots were captured along with several other images of the civil rights movement. Mushroom clouds, electric chairs and police dogs were also depicted.

His signature art style was silkscreened, mass-produced canvas art in variations of color in multiple editions. Andy Warhol used commercial silkscreening to create multiple copies of his art pieces. Based on close-up portraits of his subject material, silkscreen techniques enabled him to produce the same image in multiple color variations. He commonly used bright, upbeat colors to portray the images in the silkscreen art work. While silkscreening was his predominant style later in his career, Andy Warhol also made films, sculptures, album covers and drawings.