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noun

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

Related forms

pop artist, noun

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World English Dictionary

pop art

—n
	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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Cultural Dictionary

pop art definition

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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Example sentences

Marks went through several different phases, from abstract painting to pop art

to folk art compositions.

And appropriation was born, affecting everything from pop art to musical

sampling.

Audiences have lost the feeling for revelation and challenge that vital pop art

once regularly provided.

Paper lanterns, cherry wood furnishings and kitschy pop art grace the interior.

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"We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a theater of the absurd.... Do we have the art because the absurd is the patina of waste...? Or are we face to face with a desperate or most rational effort from the deepest resources of the unconscious of us all to rescue civilization from the pit and plague of its bedding?"

-Norman Mailer