How Did Pop Art Influence American Culture

Pop art was clearly adopted a lot of the popular imagery of the 60s. The advertisement and mass-media adaptions that were used especially in works by Lichtenstein and Warhol, but also various other pop artists, distinctly show a connection between the lifestyle of the American public and the pop artists.

Furthermore, the name pop art also attributes this movement with a certain public interest, which mostly indulged in it because of its entertainment value. On that note, pop art was also a very successful for the participating artist, as they gained a large profit out of their art works as collectors were increasingly interested in pop art.

Pop art’s interest in the America Dream, so the idea of a free market and equal opportunities for everyone, were ideas that pop artists included in their art. Especially pop artist Andy Warhol.

But while pop art was adoptive of many attributes of the 60s culture, it was also criticizing in response to philosophical questions such as putting value on a piece of art with an abstract concept such as money or even just interpreting a meaning into the piece of art.

Pop art also criticized the superficiality of American materialism that was very present during the 60s, by creating equally superficial seeming pieces of art, which were in consequence received very bad critiques.

But while pop art and the american culture were definitely connected, pop art made a valuable statement on pop art by leading people to engage with pop art and in consequence imposing a certain value on it. By doing this, in turn the american public imposed value on their own domestic way of life. Thus pop art made a successful comment on the american society of the

60s.