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Comparing Lichtenstein And Warhol

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With pop artists like Lichtenstein and Warhol incorporating popular culture content like images of advertising, commodities and media throughout their work, they not only brought back representation in art, but opened it up to the public at large with recognizable and comprehensible subject matter thus significantly blurring the distinctive lines between high and low art. By artists using machine reproduction, image appropriation and repetition within their work, stylistically, pop artists challenged cherished artistic notions by employing techniques more akin to commercial design than fine art. In many ways, it’s difficult to truly distinguish between high and low art if more than the aesthetics are considered. Both Roy Lichtenstein and Andy

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