Pop art

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Pop art is a mid-20th-century art movement that drew on imagery from mass media, advertising, and popular culture to blur the boundaries between high art and everyday life.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf art movement
visual art genre
aimsTo blur boundaries between high art and everyday life
artForm mixed media
painting
printmaking
sculpture
associatedWithArtist Andy Warhol
Claes Oldenburg
James Rosenquist
Jasper Johns
Peter Blake
Richard Hamilton
Robert Rauschenberg
Roy Lichtenstein
Tom Wesselmann
emergedInCountry United Kingdom
United States
emergedInDecade 1950s
emphasizes appropriation of existing images
banal or everyday objects
bold colors
clear outlines
mechanical reproduction
hasCulturalContext popular culture
hasKeyTheme celebrity
consumerism
irony
kitsch
mass communication
mass production
parody
hasNotableWork Campbell's Soup Cans
I was a Rich Man's Plaything
Marilyn Diptych
Whaam!
hasOriginPeriod mid-20th century
influencedBy Dada
Surrealism
influences contemporary advertising aesthetics
postmodern art
reactsAgainst Abstract Expressionism
traditional fine art conventions
roseToProminenceInDecade 1960s
usesImageryFrom advertising
celebrity culture
comic strips
consumer goods
mass media
usesTechnique assemblage
ben-day dots
collage
silkscreen printing


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