Jasper Johns , Robert Rauschenberg , George Segal , and Edward Ruscha all stand out . The reason for this is they , along with Warhol and Lichtenstein , had the ability to strike an emotional cord with their audiences . For art to rise above hackwork and pedestrian standards , it needs to appeal to the emotions of the person who is looking at the painting . If the images depicted are unoriginal or simply variants of generic , tired conventions , the artwork is simply not going to raise...











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