Pop art was an art movement in the mid-1950s Britain and late 1950s United States in which artistic tradition was challenged by the use of popular culture images and other mass-produced images to create a collage piece of sorts. A term credited to Lawrence Alloway in the 1950s, pop art includes the use of advertisements and propaganda such as logos and food labels, comic books, and other seemingly ordinary cultural objects to create varying imagery.
Made popular by the likes of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, pop art has been employed in comics, art, media and advertising ever since as a way to combine contrasting images and forced the viewers to see everyday objects together in a different light. While many believe pop art to have little values as real art, many stand by the pieces of pop art as pure artworks that send social, political or other messages among the collages.
What do you think of pop art?
Would you consider pop art as having the same value as an impressionist or surrealist painting?
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