Pop Art is a movement that originated in Britain and the United States during the 1950's and 60's, partially due to the boom of post-World War II consumerism. As a reaction to more traditional art, pop art poses the notion that mass-produced visuals can be considered 'fine art' as well. Pop art borrows a lot of ideas, themes, and methods from advertising, comics, consumer products, and everyday objects that might otherwise have been considered 'boring.' Pop art takes these objects and materials out of their places in everyday life and isolates them, often times causing viewers to contemplate and/or appreciate them differently (this is an extension of Dadaism). Because of this, pop art is about the attitudes/connotations of a work of art, rather than to the actual art itself.
Valerie Hegarty, American
Niagara Falls, 2007
Marisol Escobar, 1930, French
Women and Dog, 1964
Magrite III, 1998
Eduardo Paolozzi, 1924-2005, Scottish
Michelangelo's 'David', 1987
Dress
Newton, 1995
Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008, American
Monogram, 1959
First Landing Jump, 1961
BMW 635 CSi, 1986
Claes Oldenburg, 1929, Swedish/American
Soft Light Switches, 1969
Giant Soft Drum Set, 1967
Dropped Cone, 2001
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