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pop art
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.
pop art
noun
- 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
pop art
- Art that uses elements of popular culture, such as magazines, movies, popular music, and even bottles and cans. ( See also Andy Warhol .)
Other Words From
- pop artist noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of pop art1
Example Sentences
Today, Benglis’s naked portrait is understood as a key work not just in her career, but also in the discourse of feminism, sexuality, gender, pop art and larger debates about the purpose and power of overt provocation.
Now chef Dominique Ansel has created a Pop Art-themed ice cream sundae on sale for one day only in East Hampton.
Ditto on the East Coast, with Robert Rauschenberg, Warhol, and Lichtenstein, as part of his documentary of Pop Art.
A new exhibition in London showcases the connection between Pop Art and design.
Designers like Jones transformed female images from Pop Art into stylized and sexy sculptural furnishings.
Pop Art exploded onto the scene as an unexpected post-war party—a daring distraction from the anxieties of an age of austerity.
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