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... for pop artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and James Rosenquist. It was a major milestone in the transition of art at that time from 'high' to 'low' art. Before pop, art was considered to be for the 'social elite' and the general publics everyday workingman wasn't considered eligible enough to view work in galleries. Pop aimed to bring art into everyone's world with images that featured in everyone's lives everyday, e.g., the Coca Cola logo and Campbell soup cans that Warhol produced. This progressed onto portraits of famous celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor and Elvis Presley. When asked what pop art was, Roy Lichtenstein replied 'Outside is the world, its there. Pop art looks out into the world'. The lecture on post modernism briefly looked at some pop artists (namely Warhol, Lichtenstein, Rosenquist, Kruger etc...) and how they broke away from the previous modernistic ideas of ...