Pop Art

Pop art was a visual artistic movement that emerged in the early 1950s in Britain and in parallel in the late 1950's in the United States. Pop art is one of the major art movements of the Twentieth Century.

Characterized by themes and techniques drawn from popular mass culture, such as advertising and comic books, pop art is widely interpreted as either a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of abstract expressionism or an expansion upon them.

Pop art, like pop music, aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture. Pop art is at times targeted at a broad audience. However, much of pop art is considered very academic, as the unconventional organizational practices used often make it difficult for some to comprehend. Pop art and Minimalism are considered to be the last Modern art movements and thus the precursors to Contemporary art or Postmodern art.

Pop Artists:

   Artschwager, Richard
   D'Arcangelo, Alan
   Demuth, Charles
   Dine, Jim
   Dubuffet, Jean
   Grooms, Red
   Haring, Keith
   Hockney, David
   Indiana, Robert
   Johns, Jasper
   Katz, Alex
   Kippenberger, Martin
   Lichtenstein, Roy
   Nara, Yoshitomo
   Oldenburg, Claes
   Ramos, Mel
   Rauschenberg, Robert
   Richter, Gerhard
   Rivers, Larry
   Rosenquist, James
   Ruscha, Edward
   Singer, Clifford
   Slaughter, Tom
   Stella, Frank
   Thiebaud, Wayne
   Warhol, Andy
   Wesselmann, Tom