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Real Pop Art is art we can't make ourselves, or things we can't do. I've noticed that people really want to see skill, because it's something they admire and/or envy, such as musical technical skill, or making artwork while the public watches it being made, such as performance paintings. But I think it cheapens art to a kind of circus act that merely entertains us, whereas actual Pop Art by Warhol or Roy Lichtenstein isn't mere entertainment, and doesn't always show skill (although Lichtenstein certainly did), and yet there is a contempt for it. I think entertainment for the sake of itself kills art in a way, as entertainment kills politics. Art should provoke thought, which kills the entertainment.