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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.

Robert Rauschenberg: Monogram

Roy Lichtenstein: Whaam!

Artist Ed Ruscha stands in front of his painting Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas, which depicts a brightly colored gas station with a red STANDARD sign and gas pumps.

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Lawrence Alloway

American curator and art critic

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Richard Hamilton

British artist

USA 2006 - 78th Annual Academy Awards. Closeup of giant Oscar statue at the entrance of the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, film movie hollywood

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"Self-Portrait Etching at a Window" etching (drypoint and burin in black on ivory laid paper) by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1648; in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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USA 2006 - 78th Annual Academy Awards. Closeup of giant Oscar statue at the entrance of the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, film movie hollywood

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