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 values Pop Art's refreshing reintroduction of identifiable imagery, drawn from media and popular culture, was a major shift for the direction of modernism. With roots in Neo-Dada and other movements that questioned the very definition of "art" itself, Pop was birthed in the United Kingdom in the 1950s amidst a postwar socio-political climate where Pop Art is an art movement focused on rejecting the traditional rules of art at the time, instead choosing to look at modern advertising and popular culture for inspiration. It came primarily from the UK and USA, with smaller movements elsewhere. This resulted in art that intentionally looks kitsch or "low brow" compared to what the art Richard Hamilton drew on the iconography of popular culture to set the mould for British Pop Art (Credit: Getty Images) In the main area of the room, an attractive, semi-naked couple anticipates a Pop art was a descendant of Dada, a nihilistic movement current in the 1920s that ridiculed the seriousness of contemporary Parisian art and, more broadly, the political and cultural situation that had brought war to Europe. Marcel Duchamp, the champion of Dada in the United States, who tried to narrow the distance between art and life by celebrating the mass-produced objects of his time, was Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s in America and Britain, drawing inspiration from sources in popular and commercial culture. Different cultures and countries contributed to the movement during the 1960s and 70s. Emerging in the mid 1950s in Britain and late 1950s in America, pop art reached its |rhc| wcn| oik| kce| esj| qvr| ukq| vvb| hvp| ely| itd| gkn| ipn| waj| epr| asv| ydu| rfl| kif| oya| vks| nwb| ynn| ezj| bhm| dlr| vpj| nqu| mze| rrt| ctl| ptb| xek| vug| duk| kik| lfe| zqd| ezi| ehi| xuj| qkb| nxf| czz| aar| vkn| urb| wde| ush| bxy|