Like many other facets of culture, the 1960s brought about a revolution in the art world. "At the beginning of the 1960s, it was possible to think of works of art as belonging to one or two broad categories: painting and sculpture. Cubist and other collages, Futurist performance and Dadaist events had already begun to challenge this simple duopoly, and photography had increasingly been making strong claims for recognition as an art medium...In the years since 1960, there has been a breaking down of the certainties of this system of classification...Some artists still paint and others make what tradition would refer to as sculpture, but these practices now take their place among a far wider range of activities." (Michael Archer, p. 11) There are many artists who possibly could represent the Sixties. But it is Andy Warhol and Campbell Soup Cans and Peter Max with his colorful psychedelic and pop art who made the greatest impressions on the public.
Sources: The Art Story Online and The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool by Stroder & Phillips.
Sources: The Art Story Online
Strodder, C., & Phillips, M. (2007). The encyclopedia of sixties cool: A celebration of the grooviest people, events, and artifacts of the 1960s. Santa Monica, CA: Santa Monica Press.