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In the late 1950s, Andy Warhol, the major leading figure of pop art turned to painting, taking his models from the press cartoons and advertising, adopting the silkscreen printing technique. He created multiple copies of the same images. Some reflect the collective fanciful world of consumer society. While others reveal a prosperous America tainted with violence, sex and death.