Pop art

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc. In pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, and/or combined with unrelated material. The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it.

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Quotes

• It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.
  • Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft (1982). Themes and Conclusions, Berkley: University of California Press. p. 188.

• Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody.
  Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about?
  Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things.
  • Andy Warhol in: "What Is Pop Art?" Art News, November 1963