Widely considered the leading figure of the Pop Art movement, Andy Warhol created some of the most iconic works of the 20th century. His works tap into the cultural zeitgeist of the 1950s and 1960s, using recognizable, in some cases banal, images of consumer products, advertisements, and celebrities in order to explore the relationship between art and commercial images. Warhol is particularly notable for introducing the silk-screen technique for artistic painting; the almost identical reproductions he could create echoed the mass produced nature of consumer products and the media. Rather than giving in to certain critics’ predictions that art would suffocate under the new consumerist culture, Warhol combined the two, exploring the nature of one through the other.