Pop Art

Pop Art

                 Pop Art became a trend somewhere in the mid-1950s in England, but came to its highest level of potential in New York in the '60s alongside with Minimalism. In Pop Art, the classic was replaced with the everyday and the mass-produced awarded the same significance as the unique; the gap between high art and low art was wearing away. The media and advertising were the favorite subjects for the Pop Art's amusing celebrations of a consumerist society. Perhaps the greatest Pop artist, whose innovations have affected so much subsequent art, was the American artist, Andy Warhol (1928-87).

              The term ``Pop Art'' was first used by an English critic named  Lawrence Alloway in a 1958 in an issue of Architectural Digest to describe those paintings that celebrate post-war consumerism of being able to defy the psychology of Abstract Expressionism and embrace materialism. The most famous of the Pop artists, the cult figure Andy Warhol, recreated quasi-photographic paintings of people or everyday objects.

WebMuseum: Pop Art. 2013. WebMuseum: Pop Art. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/tl/20th/pop-art.html. [Accessed 20 May 2013].