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Pop art. About Pop art. Consumer goods, mass media, and popular culture. Appropriation. Celebrity. A movement comprising initially British, then American artists in the 1950s and 1960s. Pop artists borrowed imagery from popular culture—from sources including television, comic books, and print advertising—often to challenge conventional ...
At first glance, Pop art might seem to glorify popular culture by elevating soup cans, comic strips and hamburgers to the status of fine art on the walls of museums. But, then again, a second look may suggest a critique of the mass marketing practices and consumer culture that emerged in the United States after World War II.
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid- to late-1950s.
