Question: This American artist, director and producer's best known work includes one whose reliance on themes from popular culture helped to usher in what?

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Christopher Leith Evans: Christopher Leith Evans (born 1954) (commonly credited as Christopher Evans or Chris Evans) is an American artist, digital matte painter and visual effects art director for major motion pictures.  His best known film work includes "Titanic", "Return of the Jedi", "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "The Ewok Adventure".  His best known fine art piece is a 360 degree representation of the view visible from the top of the south tower of the World Trade Center prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 entitled "New York In the Light of Memory".  In addition to his work for galleries and films, he has also painted archaeological reconstructions for National Geographic magazine.

List of the works of the Maître de Plougastel: This is a listing/"catalogue raisonnė" of the works of the Maître de Plougastel and his workshop between 1570 and 1621.  The work includes calvaries and crosses, church decoration and some miscellaneous items.  His best known work is the Calvary at Plougastel-Daoulas.  He worked using kersanton stone.  Little is known of the man himself.  His work can be see in the diocese of Léon, the northern part of the diocese of Cornouaille and in the Cap-Sizun area.  His three main works are the Plougastel-Daoulas calvary erected between 1602 and 1604 and entirely his work, part of the porch at Guimiliau, and the calvary at Locmélar apart from the pietà and the statue of the Virgin Mary reversed with Mary Magdalene.

Campbell's Soup Cans: Campbell's Soup Cans, which is sometimes referred to as 32 Campbell's Soup Cans, is a work of art produced in 1962 by Andy Warhol.  It consists of thirty-two canvases, each measuring 20 in in height × 16 in in width and each consisting of a painting of a Campbell's Soup can—one of each of the canned soup varieties the company offered at the time.  The individual paintings were produced by a printmaking method—the semi-mechanized screen printing process, using a non-painterly style.  "Campbell's Soup Cans"' reliance on themes from popular culture helped to usher in pop art as a major art movement in the United States.

Major General George B. McClellan: Major General George B. McClellan is an equestrian statue in Washington, D.C. that honors politician and Civil War general George B. McClellan.  The monument is sited on a prominent location in the Kalorama Triangle neighborhood due to efforts made by area residents.  The statue was sculpted by American artist Frederick William MacMonnies, a graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts whose best known work is a statue of Nathan Hale in New York City.  MacMonnies was chosen to design the statue following a lengthy competition organized by a statue commission, led by then Secretary of War William Howard Taft.  The monument was dedicated in 1907, with prominent attendees at the ceremony including President Theodore Roosevelt, New York City mayor George B. McClellan, Jr., politicians, generals and thousands of military personnel.

Blue Öyster Cult: Blue Öyster Cult (often abbreviated BÖC) is an American hard rock band formed on Long Island, New York, in 1967, whose most successful work includes the hard rock and heavy metal songs "(Don't Fear) The Reaper", "Godzilla" and "Burnin' for You".  Blue Öyster Cult has sold over 24 million records worldwide, including 7 million records in the United States alone.  The band's music videos, especially "Burnin' for You", received heavy rotation on MTV when the music television network premiered in 1981, cementing the band's contribution to the development and success of the music video in modern popular culture.

Cuthy Mede: Cuthy Mede is a Malawian artist.  Lonely Planet said "possibly the best-known [Malawian] artist is Cuthy Mede – he is also actively involved in the development and promotion of Malawian art within the country and around the world."  Cuthy Mede grew up on Likoma Island, Lake Malawi where he drew in the rough sands of the beach as a child.  Later he studied Fine Art in Chancellor College and became a lecturer at the College in the 1970s.  By the 1980s Mede established Gallerie Africaine in Lilongwe City Centre, the first art gallery by a local artist in Malawi.  Mede exhibited his work widely in Malawi, becoming a successful artist selling his work to international collectors.  Mede encouraged the work of young Malawian artists struggling to make a living selling folk art and wood carvings as street traders.  He also brought fine art work from other Malawian artists into his Gallery.  He was commissioned to paint a large mural decorating the City Centre.  Mede is best known for his modern art styles: modern, futurist, cubist and pointillist, with strong local themes.  His paintings depicted local people, historic events and current events in Malawi, Biblical references with local interpretations, indigenous religious expressions, and paintings about ideas such as Justice, Greed, Man and Machine.  His paintings depict famine, refugees from Mozambique during the Civil War, voting and democracy, wedding celebration, spirits and possession, and the Nyau masquerade.  Mede's less known work is realistic, including a reproduction of the Mona Lisa.  His best known work is dominated by bright primary colors, cubist style, though his pointillist work favors ochres and softer tones in the overall effect.  In later years Mede painted mostly in shades of blue, then white on white, the purest light.  Mede is an evangelical Christian and his work begins with a point of light from which the rest of the painting flows, the energy from God.  This point of light is evident in most of his paintings as a single dot, a sun or moon, or an orb.  Best known for his paintings, Mede also produced sculptural forms such as wood figures covered in beads and pigments.  His garden in Lilongwe was made into a work of art, in white and light, with fluorescent light tubes hanging from trees and white painted rocks lining the drive and entry.  Mede's wife, Esther (deceased 2009), served as Principal Secretary for the Ministry of Research and Environmental Affairs in the Malawi government.

Richard Iton: Richard Iton ( - April 21, 2013) was a professor of African American studies at Northwestern University, who was nationally known for his work on the ways black popular culture forged community and affected politics.  A political scientist by training, Iton is most known for his 2008 book, “In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era” (Oxford University Press, 2008), which explores the relationship between popular culture and institutionalized politics.

Andy Warhol: Andy Warhol ( ; born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.  His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertising that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture.  Some of his best known works include the silkscreen paintings "Campbell's Soup Cans" (1962) and "Marilyn Diptych" (1962), the experimental film "Chelsea Girls" (1966), and the multimedia events known as the "Exploding Plastic Inevitable" (1966–67).

Pamela Stretton: Pamela Stretton (born 15 April 1980) is a South African artist whose work deals predominantly with the female body and its commodification, beautification, and role in popular culture.  Most of her works are digital ink jet prints that combine photographic images and text; they are composites of barcodes, labels, and advertisements that create a larger image of the female form.  The pieces are largely autobiographical, but also carry general themes about popular culture, fashion, health, and food.  The painstaking and meticulous creation of each piece references obsessive eating disorders.  Similarly, the grid mechanism portrays the pressures of conformity.  Her style has been called a female version of Chuck Close.

Paris Street; Rainy Day: Paris Street; Rainy Day (French Rue de Paris, temps de pluie) is a large 1877 oil painting by the French artist Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894), and is his best known work.  It shows a number of individuals walking through the Place de Dublin, in 1877 known as the Carrefour de Moscou, at an intersection to the east of the Gare Saint-Lazare in north Paris.  Although Caillebotte was a friend and patron of many of the impressionist painters, and this work is part of that school, it differs in its realism and reliance on line rather than broad brush strokes.

Supporting paragraphs: Andy Warhol Campbell's Soup Cans
Answer: pop art