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.
-Pop art employs aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects.
-It is widely interpreted as a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of abstract expressionism, as well as an expansion upon them.
-Much of pop art is considered incongruent, as the conceptual practices that are often used make it difficult for some to readily comprehend.
-Pop art often takes as its imagery that which is currently in use in advertising.
-Product labeling and logos figure prominently in the imagery chosen by pop artists, like in the Campbell's Soup Cans labels, by Andy Warhol.
-The origins of pop art in North America and Great Britain developed differently
-They were a gathering of young painters, sculptors, architects, writers and critics who were challenging prevailing modernist approaches to culture as well as traditional views of Fine Art.
Some sample of pop art: