Andy Warhol

Warhol's most prominent work began in the 60's when he began making paintings of famous American pop culture products. He was often criticized for this by being called a "capitalist artist", but Warhol wanted to make his work accessible to all types of people. He was also very interested in the recontextualization of the medium itself. He would paint banal and simple things to comment on art itself and the society that inhabited these items and his use of oxidation paintings were canvases prepared with copper paint that were then soaked with urine. He was also famous for making his art extremely mechanized so that he rarely even had his hand in mass producing it.