Sentences with phrase «appropriate popular iconography»
Johns» breakthrough move, which was to inform much later work by others, was to appropriate popular iconography for painting, thus allowing a set of familiar associations to answer the need for subject.
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He soon formed relationships with Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, and Merce Cunningham and began to make paintings that appropriated popular iconography — the American flag, targets, numbers, and letters — quickly announcing himself an important new artist.