Flowers (Warhol)
1964 · Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Four flat hibiscus blossoms on green, silkscreened from an ordinary photograph and reproduced in any color, over and over, on demand.
★ 6.1
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Map
1961 · Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Johns stenciled the state names and then let red, yellow and blue run right over the borders. Another sign everybody already knows.
★ 6.5
Drowning Girl
1963 · Museum of Modern Art, New York City
She would rather sink than call Brad. Lichtenstein took one panel of a romance comic and blew it up to the size of a serious painting.
★ 7.2
Three Flags
1954 · Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Johns chose things the mind already knows, so that nobody would look past the wax surface. Three flags stacked, each smaller than the last.
★ 7.4
Whaam!
1963 · Tate Modern, London
Lichtenstein blew a single war-comic panel up to mural scale across two canvases, Ben-Day dots, caption box and all.
★ 7.5
Marilyn Diptych
1962 · Tate Modern, London
Warhol silkscreened a publicity photo fifty times just after Monroe died, bright on one half and smudging away to nothing on the other.
★ 8.0
Campbell's Soup Cans
1962 · Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Thirty-two canvases, one for every variety Campbell's then sold, hung in a row like stock on a supermarket shelf.
★ 8.8