How did Tom Wesselman portray sex symbols in the Great American Nude series?

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Five Andy Warhol paintings of Campbell's soup cans, each labeled with a different soup variety, displayed in a row on a white wall at Museumsquartier in Vienna. — Pop art *Campbell's Soup Cans*, polymer paint on canvas by Andy Warhol, 1962; a selection of five on display in the Museumsquartier, Vienna.

In the Pop art movement, Tom Wesselmann portrayed sex symbols in his Great American Nude series as flat, direct, and faceless figures. By removing individual features, Wesselmann emphasized the iconic and depersonalized nature of these subjects, aligning with the movement's broader tendency to present imagery from commercial and popular culture with objective immediacy.1