It drives me crazy when people talk about works of Pop Art as though
they somehow belong in the same category as traditional high art — as
though it makes any sense at all to talk about the oeuvre of Andy Warhol in the same breath as the oeuvre
of Jan Van Eyck, just because they tend to be grouped that way by the academy
and by art institutions.  I actually think it's a sign of clinical
insanity, culturally speaking.



But that doesn't mean that works of Pop Art aren't unspeakably cool.  The Lichtenstein above is unspeakably cool.