Features of postmodernism in “Introduction to Pop Art” and “ Warhol and the 20th century.”:

*A break down between high and low cultural forms: the line between fine art and commercial art is blurred. As pop art uses images of mass-product objects and celebrities that everyone could recognize in a second, it seems that everybody could understand art.

*Pop art makes use of repetition of these images. This is consistent with Baudrillard’s idea that in the postmodern world of mass media the original disappears and only copies exist.

*There is a questioning of what Lyotard calls “grand narratives”: pop art takes cheap, everyday objects and transform them into “art”, questioning the traditional conception that art should represent the most valuable ideas in a culture. Pop art introduced new questions about what art is, how it can be made, and who could make art. In Andy Warhol’s words: “The Pop idea, after all, was that anybody could do anything, so naturally we were all trying to do it all…”