Andy Warhol's 'Marilyn' diptych — 50 Marilyn Monroe images on a single canvas — was painted just weeks after her death in 1962 and now hangs in the Tate Modern. Pop Art took the everyday — soup cans, comic strips, Marilyn Monroe — and turned it into fine art, exploding in the 1960s as a rejection of Abstract Expressionism's seriousness. This quiz covers the artists, works, and cultural moments that defined the movement.
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You'll explore Warhol's Factory and silkscreens, Lichtenstein's Ben-Day dots and comic-strip paintings, Oldenburg's monumental sculptures, the British Independent Group origins, and how the movement extended through Hockney, Haring, Basquiat, Murakami, and Koons.
Andy Warhol painted Campbell's Soup Cans in 1962 — a series of 32 canvases, one for each variety of soup the company sold at the time. The work is now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Ben-Day dots are a printing technique using small colored dots to create shading and tone in comic books and newspapers. Roy Lichtenstein famously enlarged and hand-painted them to mimic comic-book aesthetics in his fine art.
Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) was an American Pop artist famous for paintings based on comic strips, complete with Ben-Day dots and speech balloons. His works include 'Whaam!' (1963) and 'Drowning Girl' (1963).
Last updated: May 2026