re: #10 lawhawk

So, just because Andy Warhol decided to make pop art out of the leader of one of the most heinous regimes in history

“Pop art” doesn’t mean “art intended to be popular”. The leader of one of the most heinous regimes in history is exactly the sort of subject one would expect to see rendered in that way.

He painted them for the same reason he painted them for the same reason he painted Elvis, Marylin, and Campbell’s Soup cans. He was depicting these iconic images that popular culture attaches so much meaning to as essentially just images images advertising a brand-name commodity.