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Definition: pop art from Collins English Dictionary

n

1 a movement in modern art that imitates the methods, styles, and themes of popular culture and mass media, such as comic strips, advertising, and science fiction


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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Movement in modern art that took its imagery from the glossy world of advertising and from popular culture such as comic strips, films, and television; it developed in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s, notably in Britain and the USA. Pop art reflected the new wealth, consumerism, and light-hearted attitudes that followed the austerity of the post-war period. It was also a reaction against abstract expressionism , the dominant art movement of the 1950s, which was serious and inward-looking – pop art was playful and ironic, and ignored the rules of the traditional art world. The movement helped to prepare the way for postmodernism , a feature of Western culture since the 1970s. Leading US pop artists include Andy Warhol , Jasper Johns , and Roy Lichtenstein ; UK exponents include Richard Hamilton and Allen Jones . Andy Warhol's famous Twenty Marilyns (1962; Paris, private collection), depicting Marilyn Monroe, is a typical example of pop art. Although sometimes regarded as mainly a…
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From The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers
Art movement that elevated the imagery of popular advertising (packaging, comic strips, etc.) to fine art. Often working on a large scale, Pop artists highlighted the powerful relationship between the consumer and the artefacts of consumerism. The combination of flat, brash colours with…
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From The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms
Art which makes use of the imagery of consumerism and mass culture (e.g. comic strips, pin-ups and packaging), with a finely balanced mixture of irony and celebration. Pop Art began in the 1950s with various investigations into the nature of urban popular culture, notably by members of the…
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From Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable
A movement in painting and sculpture which began independently in Britain and the USA in the 1950s. It was largely a reaction against the self-centred seriousness of 'high art' and the remoteness of abstract art. The images were gaudy and vulgar, owing much to contemporary advertising and commercial…
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From Encyclopedia of American Studies
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From Encyclopedia of American Literature Full text Article Volume 4
Pop art refers to a movement in the visual arts in which artists employ the images and icons of popular culture—comic books, brand-name packages, magazine advertisements, and so on—as part of their work. The images are often used self-consciously in the manner of kitsch. By placing such banal, …
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Movement in modern art that took its imagery from the glossy world of advertising and from popular culture such as comic strips, films, and television; it developed in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s, notably in Britain and the USA. Pop art reflected the new wealth, consumerism, and…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Art in which commonplace objects (such as comic strips, soup cans, road signs, and hamburgers) were used as subject matter. The Pop art movement was largely a British and American cultural phenomenon of the late 1950s and ’60s. Works by such Pop artists as the Americans Roy Lichtenstein , Andy…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
What is pop art? Pop art was an art movement originating in the mid-1950s in the UK. Artists in the USA were also exploring the same ideas at around the same time. Pop art is an abbreviation of ‘popular art’ and comes from popular culture. It was a celebration of Western consumerism, based on…
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From The Reader's Companion to American History
Pop art's subject matter was the slick, formulaic images of mass culture and its medium the stylized graphics of commercial art. Although originating in England, the movement flourished in America during the mid-1950s and 1960s. Glorifying everyday objects and visual clichés, it served as witty…
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From A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
(c. 1960) It was quite stunning at the beginning – the first post-World War II representational reaction to ABSTRACT ART that was not primarily conservative (or antimodernist) in spirit. As the creation of painters conscious of art history, who had assimilated and revealed the influence of…
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