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pop art
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| 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.
[Origin: 1960–65
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pop artist.
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| pop art or Pop Art
n. A form of art that depicts objects or scenes from everyday life and employs techniques of commercial art and popular illustration. pop-art (pŏp'ärt') adj., pop artist n. |
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| 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 |
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American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
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pop art
Art that uses elements of popular culture, such as magazines, movies, popular music, and even bottles and cans. (See also Andy Warhol.)
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