Poor Little Rich Girl

When Pop Art is introduced in any class the first thing one sees is the iconic array of Campbell's Soups created by Andy Warhol. However, up to that point, every student has been meticulously programmed to look for meaning  in every single aspect of a work, but Warhol's works are the antithesis. His works reflected the values of his audience, America, mass produced and superficial. Warhol did not wish to instill a deeper meaning to his works beyond the surface, so what you saw is what you got. In doing so, he opposed the idea that art had to be this serious thing, but there was meaning in that. His art was a reflection of the American people, and in its meaninglessness spoke volumes. The vanity and obsession with fame and glamour that Warhol so cleverly portrayed was, and still is, consuming us all. We are constantly bombarded by images that lack in substance and in meaning, but it is all we want to see. The latest magazines, movies, and music— the majority of which is completely deprived of usability or depth— govern our daily lives and we stand idly by while they devour our nation's intellectual future.