One of Andy Warhol’s famous phrases was, “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes.” He said this in 1968, in the pre-YouTube and pre-Twitter days. This phrase would be a prophetic—today is the social media era of disposable fame.
Pop art takes imagery from popular culture, mass media and advertising, and isolates them within the context of art history to cull new and original meaning. Artist Andy Warhol was a master of this particular take on art—with a practice that famously includes paintings of Campbell soup cans and Brillo boxes.
"In the age of Instagram, Warhol's fabled prediction that ‘in the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes' has never felt more prophetic."