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Pop Art

For Pop Art we have terms and definitions in 3 topics. The topics are Art, Art Movements and Sculptural.



Pop Art (Art)

An art movement that developed in New York City in the 1950s. Pop art is derived from commercial art forms and typically magnifies items from mass culture such as comic strip panels, popular foods, and brand-name packages. The name pop art refers to the use of popular culture images. Pop artists used commercial techniques as well.


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Pop Art (Art Movements)

In this return to representational art, the artist returns to the world of tangible objects in a reaction against abstraction. Materials are drawn from the everyday world of popular culture—comic strips, canned goods, and science fiction.


Pop Art (Sculptural)

A style derived from commercial art forms and characterized by larger than life replicas of items from mass culture. This style evolved in the late 1950s and was characterized in the 1960s by such artists as Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Claus Oldenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Larry Rivers, Robert Rauschenberg, George Segal, and Robert Indiana.




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