Pop Art

noun

a school of art that emerged in the United Kingdom in the 1950s and became prevalent in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1960s; it imitated the techniques of commercial art (as the soup cans of Andy Warhol) and the styles of popular culture and the mass media

• Hypernyms: ↑artistic movement, ↑art movement

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noun

Usage: sometimes capitalized P&A

: art in which commonplace objects (as road signs, hamburgers, comic strips, or soup cans) are used as subjects and often physically incorporated in the work

• pop artist noun

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—pop artist.

an art movement that began in the U.S. in the 1950s and reached its peak of activity in the 1960s, chose as its subject matter the anonymous, everyday, standardized, and banal iconography in American life, as comic strips, billboards, commercial products, and celebrity images, and dealt with them typically in such forms as outsize commercially smooth paintings, mechanically reproduced silkscreens, large-scale facsimiles, and soft sculptures.

Also Pop Art.

[1960-65]

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pop art noun

Art drawing deliberately on commonplace material of modern urbanized life

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Main Entry: ↑pop

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pop art UK US noun [uncountable] art

a style of modern art that began in the 1960s and used familiar images such as advertisements as its subjects http://www.macmillandictionary.com/med2cd/weblinks/pop-art.htm

Thesaurus: styles and methods in art_hyponym

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pop art or Pop art,

an art form that uses everyday objects, especially popular mass-produced articles such as comic strips, soup cans, and posters, as its subject matter and sometimes also as the artistic material or medium itself: »

Pop art is thought to be the art of everyday things and banal images—bathroom fixtures, Dick Tracy—but its essential character consists in redoing works of art. Its scope extends from Warhol's rows of Coca-Cola bottles to supplying the “Mona Lisa” with a mustache (New Yorker).

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n. art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, esp. as a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values

Encyclopedic information:

The term is applied specifically to the works, largely from the mid 1950s and 1960s, of a group of artists including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jasper Johns, who used images from comic books, advertisements, consumer products, television, and the movies

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↑pop art

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ˈpop art [pop art] (also Pop Art) noun uncountable

a style of art, developed in the 1960s, that was based on popular culture and used material such as advertisements, film/movie images, etc.

 

Culture:

Pop art was developed in the 1950s by artists such as Eduardo Paolozzi in Britain and Jasper Johns in the US. It became well known in the 1960s through the work of pop artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.