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Pop Art

Facts, History, Major Artists.

Pop art first start in Britain in the 1950s then spread to NewYork in the mid 50s and ended in the 1960s.

Pop Art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular and mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects. "Pop Art are based on modern popular culture and the mass media."

Pop Art uses a lot of colors. Techniques like silkscreen printing was used by Andy Warhol and was the most popular technique. 

Pop art is the reaction to the ideas of abstract expressionism.

When thinking of Pop Art, we think on Andy Warhol.

Andy Warhol was the most successful artist in New York and he was the one who bring the Pop CUlture into life. His Major work like the screenprinted images of Marilyn Monroe, soup cans, and sensational newspaper stories. His first work that catches people attention was the soup can where he put up soup cans picture with little different in each picture.