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| pop art - a school of art that emerged in the United Kingdom in the 1950s and became prevalent in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1960s; it imitated the techniques of commercial art (as the soup cans of Andy Warhol) and the styles of popular culture and the mass media |
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- pop art (Noun)
A genre of art that uses elements of popular culture ; often uses techniques from commercial art and advertising.
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Pop art is a type of art that was popular in the 1960s and 1950s. Some pop artists include Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana and Roy Lichtenstein.
Pop art is a visual art movement that appeared in the mid 1950s in Britain and in parallel in the late 1950s in the United States and which rose in the 60's to the dominate artistic art of expression. Pop art is one of the major art movements of the twentieth century. Characterized by themes and techniques drawn from popular mass culture, such as advertising and comic books, pop art is widely interpreted as either a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of abstract expressionism or an expansion upon them. Pop art, like pop music, aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture. It has also been defined by the artists' use of mechanical means of reproduction or rendering techniques that downplay the expressive hand of the artist. Pop art at times targeted a broad audience and often claimed to do so.
The motives are out of the everyday culture, the world of consume, the mass media and out of the advertisement. The artists often name pop art „ anti-art“, which turns to trivialities. The pop artists ask for absolute reality, that means, all the elements have to be clean and clear objects. The most forms were bordered with black lines as in comic books. The objects are often plane like at poster, so demonstrated without deepness. The colours are always clear,
