Andy Warhol

Birth of Venus (after Bottecelli)
He wanted to be a "star" and make money. He used his commercial art background in his techmique of screen printing on canvas. It is fast and and more profitable and easy to make many versions. He called his studio "the factory." He appropriated celebrity imagery and was interested in the public masks, not the personality or character of his subjects.

Warhol was obsessed with "fame" and wanted to become an immortal icon.

Claus Oldenberg

Monumental sculpture of common objects in public places. Oldenberg makes jokes that play on his audience's expectations. In his world, consumable goods cannot be consumed, even if they can be purchased, and giant versions of the most banal things, such as clothespins, spoons,electric plugs, scissors, trowels, and faucets, transform the everyday into the monumental. His objects seem to function like Russian icons, objects of veneration for a society that values shopping above all other activities.