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How to Tell the Difference Between Andersen Design Popular Art and Andy Warhol Pop Art

How to Tell the Difference Between Andersen Design Popular Art and Andy Warhol Pop Art

Both used production as an art form and started in the midcentury so how do you tell them apart?

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How do you tell the difference between these two styles of popular art? photo of art object on the right by Girl with red hat on Unsplash, photo on the left by the author

How do you tell the difference between Andersen Design Popular Art and Andy Warhol’s Pop Art? Good Question! Let’s see if we can establish some distinctions!

First, there is the startup date. Andersen Design established its production as an art form in 1952 and Andy Warhol made Pop Art more famous using production as an art form in 1961 so Andersen Design was a forerunner of Warhol’s Pop Art. Even though Andy Warhol may have thought he never heard of Andersen Design, he was probably aware of the art production through the collective unconsciousness of mankind, whether he knew it or not, Andy Warhol was, after all, an antenna of human culture.

It starts with the Industrial Revolution.

Using production as an art form is a social response to the working conditions in the factories that proliferated as a result of the Indus…

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