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Pop Art

Meaning in art & art history, with examples

/ˈpɑːp ˌɑːrt/nounCommon term

In art & art history, Pop Art means: A movement of the 1950s and 1960s in Britain and the United States that used images from advertising, comics, celebrity culture and everyday consumer products.

In Turkish: Pop Art, pop sanat

How it is used

Leading names are Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein in the US and Richard Hamilton and Peter Blake in Britain. Works often use screen printing, bright flat colours and repetition. It is written Pop Art or pop art; the artists are pop artists.

Example sentences

  1. Warhol's soup cans are probably the most famous images of Pop Art.

  2. Pop Art blurred the line between fine art and advertising.

Common collocations

  • Pop Art movement
  • Pop Art icon
  • British Pop Art
  • Pop Art style
  • modern artArt made roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, when artists broke with academic traditions and experimented with new styles, subjects and materials.
  • printmakingThe art of making images by transferring ink from a prepared surface, such as a metal plate, a woodblock or a screen, onto paper, so that several copies can be made.
  • contemporary artThe art of the present time, usually meaning work made from about the 1960s or 1970s to today, often using new media, ideas and ways of exhibiting.
  • art movementA group of artists who share similar ideas, aims or styles during a particular period, and the art they produce, such as Impressionism or Cubism.

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