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Pop Art Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein were both important pop exponents during the Pop Art movement. Both their styles where very different but encapsulated the point of Pop Art and its look on pop culture and consumerism. Warhol is best known for his piece’s ‘Marilyn Diptych’, ‘Coca-Cola Bottles’ and ‘Soup Cans’ and his technique of using silk screens to create repetitions of the same image. Roy Lichtenstein was known for his use of Ben Day dots and his large-scale cartoon paintings like ‘Wham!’ and ‘Big Painting VI’. Both artists were two of the most prominent U.S. Pop artists to come out of this time. Andy Warhol began his art career being a commercial artist/illustrator for advertisement and this is where he got his ideas for pop art. He was i