Pop art was one of the offshoot trends of the art avant-garde movement in the 1950s. Originating from Britain, it was a movement of artists who used mass-consumed products, technology, mass media and advertising as subjects of their art. One of the most famous proponents of the Pop Art movement in the United States, Warhol used the medium of silkscreen to render commercialized products of the 1960s in garish, fancy colors. Also a film maker, poet, and record producer, the artist experienced more than “fifteen minutes of fame”, an expression he coined, when he first launched a one man gallery exhibit on July 9, 1962. He was also said to have founded “The Gallery”, which became his studio for three years.

Examples of the images he painted included commercial items such as Campbell soup cans, Coca Cola bottles and dollar bills. In 1964, he launched an exhibit entitled “The American Supermarket”, which was a supermarket scene filled with actual supermarket goods. The goods though, were designed by Warhol and six other pop artists such as Billy Apple, Mary Inman and Robert Watts.

He also painted cultural icons such as Elizabeth Taylor, Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Mick Jagger, Liza Minelli, Diana Ross and Michael Jackson. He especially profited in the 1970’s from doing portrait commissions of these famous celebrities. It was written that he was criticized for becoming a commercial artist.

Pop Art prints have become exactly what the movement stood for. Pop art images became mass-produced images. Museums, bookstores and novelty shops continuously print posters and other commercial items of Warhol’s paintings. Today, online print shops make it convenient for customers to make a poster online. Customers can view or make posters online by uploading any design on a printing company’s website. Colors, sizes, and finishes can all be customized and printed as posters.

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