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Pop Art

The Pop Art movement sprung up as a result of a fascination with popular culture, and affluent post war society. Pop Art appeared in the 1950’s and endured through to the 1960’s. The movement originally grew out of America but quickly spread to Britain. Pop Art celebrated simple every day objects such as soup cans, soap, washing powder, pop bottles, and comic strips, and in effect, turned commonplace items into icons. Pop Art was directly influenced by Dadaism in that it pokes fun at the traditional art world by using images from the streets and supermarkets, and suggesting that they are art forms in themselves. Pop Art encompasses definitions of the popular, the expendable, the mass produced, the young, witty and sexy, and the glamorous. Andy Warhol is Pop Art’s most notable artist in that he brought the art form to the public eye. He created numerous screen prints of Coke bottles, Campbell’s soup tins, and film stars such as Marilyn Monroe. This in effect contributed to the iconography of the 20th century. Pop Art embraced commercial techniques by creating machine produced art, which set artists apart from the previous introspective styles of the Abstract Expressionists. Famous Pop Artists include Richard Hamilton, Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Tom Wesselmann, and Robert Rauschenberg.
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