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Which materials did Pop artists use in collage works?

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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 context of the Pop art movement, artists utilized a variety of materials to create collages that reflected the consumer-driven culture of the 1960s.

Key materials and techniques included:

Mass-media imagery: Artists frequently incorporated newspaper and magazine photographs, as well as imagery culled from comic books, advertising, and pulp magazines.12
Commercial techniques: Robert Rauschenberg famously combined these photographic fragments with silk-screen printing to produce his works.1
Found objects: Reflecting the movement's interest in everyday life, artists often integrated mass-produced items, such as postcards and other common consumer goods, into their collage-based paintings.2

While earlier movements like Dada and Cubism pioneered the use of "found" surfaces—such as tickets, wallpaper scraps, and wood—Pop artists specifically adapted these methods to critique or mirror the mass-production and consumer abundance of the postwar era.123