Artist field note

Andy Warhol

The artist who saw that art had entered the age of pop culture.

Brillo Boxes by Andy Warhol
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Brillo Boxes

1964

They look like packaging from a storeroom. If the art object and the commercial box can look the same, where exactly does art begin?

The five in one idea

Warhol understood that popular culture was not beneath serious art. It was becoming the culture.