POP ART Definition & Meaning

pop art

or Pop Art

noun

an art movement that began in the U.S. in the 1950s and reached its peak of activity in the 1960s, chose as its subject matter the anonymous, everyday, standardized, and banal iconography in American life, as comic strips, billboards, commercial products, and celebrity images, and dealt with them typically in such forms as outsize commercially smooth paintings, mechanically reproduced silkscreens, large-scale facsimiles, and soft sculptures.

pop art

noun

a movement in modern art that imitates the methods, styles, and themes of popular culture and mass media, such as comic strips, advertising, and science fiction

pop art

Art that uses elements of popular culture, such as magazines, movies, popular music, and even bottles and cans. ( See also Andy Warhol .)

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Other �y��vlog Forms

pop artist noun

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of pop art¹

First recorded in 1960–65

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In the 1960s, Goode’s work was uncomfortably tagged as Pop art.

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She was drawn to the bold graphics of Pop Art, making serigraphs so that her work would be affordable.

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Alexandra Grant, who discovered Kent’s work after she became a professional artist, admires “the freshness she proposed to the Pop Art movement through her idealism and the bold artistry she brought to the social justice movement.”

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He was also a visual artist and art collector, according to the American Visionary Art Museum, ultimately amassing hundreds of works including Pop Art prints by Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg and others.

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From abstract expressionism to pop art, the collection at the museum serves as a time capsule of pivotal artistic movements.

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