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Pop Art is the abbreviation of Popular Art, an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s, with the goal of "embracing" and deconstructing images pertaining to mass cultures, the so-called "pop culture" made for large crowds. This art represented reality of media, advertising, television and comic strips (Sayre, 2013). The United States and Britain were the pioneer countries in pop art, a movement that was renamed in 1954 by the English critic Lawrence Alloway, referring to all kinds of mass production that was created and consumed in the West. Though the term “Pop art” became associated with Warhol, the term was actually coined in England during the 1950’s. According to Sayre (2013), the term “soon came to refer to any art whose theme was essentially the commodification of culture-that is, the marketplace as the dominant force in the creation of culture” (pp 479) Inspired by images and personality of the mass culture, the artists of pop art seek to mock the daily materialistic and consumerist life of the people. In artistic works of pop art, the use of elements created from the new technologies of the 20th century replace the traditional brushes, paints and paintings. Styrofoam, polyester, foam and acrylic have been widely used by the plastic artists of this movement. Some of the iconic works of the pop art movement are the Coca-Cola bottles and the famous Campbell Soup, created by Andy Warhol, one of Pop Art's most important names. Among the main artists of pop art the stand outs are, Andy Warhol, considered the "Pope" of pop art; Peter Blake; Wayne Thiebaud; Roy Lichtenstein and Jasper Jo. While Pop Art is criticized by some for being mass produced or unrefined, I see it as an expressive way to tell time in history- one can appreciate exactly what was happening in the U.S when referring back to works of these artists. It evolves with society and is able to reflect where we are and what is happening with accuracy.

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Pop Art Movement, Artists and Major Works. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.theartstory.org/movement-pop-art.htm

Sayre, H. M. (2013). Discovering the humanities (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.