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...... Warhol saw art in a more mass-produced, industrialized manner than Duchamp[3]. Warhols art production techniques were routine, often producing the same image repeatedly[4]. Warhol defined Pop Art as the use of iconic images that anyone would recognize[5]. However, the art of Warhol and Duchamp do not represent mass public opinions, but rather they capture the absurdity of the everyday and the mundane. Duchamp took several everyday objects and combined them in an unexpected way. For instance, he took an ordinary bicycle wheel and mounted it on top of an ordinary stool. He also took a spool of string and mounted it between two copper plates
Warhols ordinary objects were remarkable because they were exactly what one would expect them to be. A soup can was a soup can, lined up just was they would be in any American kitchen cupboard. The absurdity of Warhols work does not stem from an unusual use of the object, as with Duchamps work, but rather from the normalcy of the object and its usage. From this respect, Warhols work it much more realistic. The surreal qualities of Warhols work come only from its depiction in art. This idea may have been inspired by

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