Pop Art

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States

Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc.

In Pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, and/or combined with unrelated material.

The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it.

Pop art often takes as its imagery that which is currently in use in advertising.

Product labeling and logos figure prominently in the imagery chosen by pop artists, like in the Campbell's Soup Cans labels, by Andy Warhol.

The paintings of Lichtenstein, like those of Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann and others, share a direct attachment to the commonplace image of American popular culture, but also treat the subject in an impersonal manner clearly illustrating the idealization of mass production. Andy Warhol is probably the most famous figure in Pop Art. Warhol attempted to take Pop beyond an artistic style to a life style, and his work often displays a lack of human affectation that dispenses with the irony and parody of many of his peers.

Proto-pop

It should also be noted that while the British pop art movement predated the American pop art movement, there were some earlier American proto-Pop origins which utilized "as found" cultural objects. During the 1920s American artists Gerald Murphy, Charles Demuth and Stuart Davis created paintings prefiguring the pop art movement that contained pop culture imagery such as mundane objects culled from American commercial products and advertising design