quickly spread throughout nearly all of the industrialized world. Although the

artists did have some overlapping styles, pop art focuses more on the subject and

less on style, which was left up to each individual artist. The main themes that is

evident in all pop art revolves around modern social values. The style in which

these values were portrayed varied depending on the culture and artist. Critic

Barbara Rose claimed in her review of a Pop Art show that Pop Art, " I wish to

disagree with the assumption that pop art is an art style. It is not; these artists

are linked only through their subject matter, not through stylistic similarities. This

makes it possible to talk of the iconography or attitudes of Pop art, but not of Pop

art as an art style, as one would speak of Baroque or Cubism." (Bondo, 1998)

In America, Pop Art used the images and techniques of mass media,

advertising, and popular culture, often in an ironic way to play off the social issues

of popular culture. The art form developed rapidly once reaching the U.S. New

York City, often viewed as the epicenter of American popular culture, fostered the

many times Warhol would produce a work without color first. Then, he would

used rubber stamps and stencils to achieve the machine made, printed look.

would be too simple. Many of the scenes featured men as women, drag queens

The shape of many of the images in his most popular works had a

automobile accidents. To most, it seemed as if the media were relating this as a

spread color out by means of a tiny dot pattern. This was achieved through the

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