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Pop art is an artistic movement that is a rejection of abstract expressionism and aims to return to figurative art while incorporating themes and techniques from mass culture. The term was coined in 1956 by British critic Laurence Alloway but didn't entirely stick until well into the 1960s. In the meantime the movement was being called Neo-dada, a name which reveals some of the thinking behind this type of art. There is a strong influence of Dadaism in Pop art.Pop art is also to some extent a satire of the philistine acquisitiveness of patrons of art and of official art institutions – for example, early pop artists induced important museums to invest large sums of money in paintings of mundane subjects, done with acrylic paint on plywood, which quickly deteriorated. This movement gained strength in the 1960s and was centered in England and the United States early on.
Notable Pop Artists include:
- Peter Blake
- Richard Hamilton
- Keith Haring
- David Hockney
- Robert Indiana
- Jasper Johns
- Yayoi Kusama
- Roy Lichtenstein
- Peter MaxPeter Max (born October 19, 1937) is an American Pop artist. He was born in Berlin, Germany and raised in Shanghai, China and in Israel before his family settled in the United States in 1953. Max's art work was influential and much imitated in advertising
- Claes OldenburgClaes Oldenburg (born January 28, 1929) is a sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring large versions of everyday objects. Another theme in his work is soft versions of normally hard objects. Oldenburg was born in Stockholm
- Robert RauschenbergRobert Rauschenberg is a painter, sculptor, and graphic artist known for helping to redefine American art in the 1950s and '60s, providing an alternative to the then-dominant aesthetic of Abstract Expressionism. Born Milton Ernest Rauschenberg on October
- James RosenquistBorn in North Dakota in 1933, James Rosenquist won a short-term scholarship to study at the Minneapolis School of Art in junior high school, and subsequently studied painting at the University of Minnesota from 1952 to 1954. In 1955 he moved to New York o
- Wayne ThiebaudWayne Thiebaud (born 1920) was born at Mesa in Arizona, America. He spent over ten years working in New York and Hollywood as a cartoonist and advertisement designer, a period interrupted by four years serving with the US Army Air Force from 1942 to 1946.
- Andy WarholAndy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 February 22, 1987) was an American painter and major figure in the pop art movement. Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, to Slovakian immigrants of Ruthenian ethnicity. He showed early ar
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