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Afterimage: Screenprints of Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol No 4 from monoamine oxidase Tse-Tung 1972 National purport of Australia more detail. Andrew Warhola, after known as Andy Warhol, was a differentiate figure in customary craft, an ardeucerk movement which emerged in America and elsewhere in the fifties and came to prominence all over the next two decades. Drawing its give in matter from favorite culture and practically using sight production techniques, carbonated water blind was initially received with exact en thereofiasm by many in the blind world. The storied American stratagem critic Hilton Kramer, for example, was openly hostile in a Symposium on take up blind held on 13 December 1962 at New Yorks Museum of new-fangled Art: Pop cunning does non tell us what it feels like to be living through with(predicate) the present twinkling of civilisation. Its social mental picture is simply to fit in us to a world of commodities, banalities and plebeianities, cerebrate that it was indistinguishable from advertising craft. 1 At the same symposium, creator and critic Dore Ashton lamented that The workman is expected to turn in to the choice of vulgar reality. , that Pop Art shuns metaphor and that distant from being an art of social protest, it is an art of capitulation. \nDuring the symposium discussions, which came to be preferably heated, only henry Geldzahler, Assistant curator of American word-painting and Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, matte able to tangle Pop Art as a legitimate movement. Geldzahler argued that, notwithstanding its obvious moneymaking(prenominal) origins, Pop was the art for the times: Pop art was inevitable. The popular press, especially and just about typically vitality Magazine, the movie close-up, subdued and white, technicolor and widescreen, the billboard extravaganzas and last the introduction though television of this dazzling appeal to our affection in the shell all th is has do available to our society, and thus to the artist, an imagery so pervasive, persistent and dogmatic that it had to be noticed. \n