In Abstract Expressionism the paintings symbolize the idea of ground-directedness as opposed to object-directedness. You put something down, react to it, put something else down, and the painting itself becomes a symbol of this. The difference is that rather than symbolize this ground-directedness I do an object-directed appearing thing. There is humor here. The work is still ground-directed; the fact that it's an eyebrow or an almost direct copy of something is unimportant. The ground-directedness is in the painter's mind and not immediately in apparent in the painting. Pop Art makes the statement that ground-directedness is not a quality that the painting has because of what it looks like...
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Roy Lichtenstein was a 20th-century American pop artist. Roy Fox Lichtenstein was an American artist. A leading figure of the Pop Art movement, Lichtenstein is best known for his large-scale paintings inspired by comic books, advertisements, and mass-produced imagery. Read more on Wikipedia →