Pop Art Prints

“Pop Art Prints” shows a selection of thirty-seven prints from the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s permanent collection: the installation includes works from primarily the 1960s when pop art artists became celebrities and the demand for their work was so high they turned to print to satisfy such market.
Pop Art offered a clear contrast to abstract expressionism, then the dominant movement in American art and artists like Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and others of their generation challenged a whole range of assumptions about what fine art should be.