Pop Art is an artistic movement that emerged in the 1950s in England, which reached its maturity in the 1960s in the USA. This movement emerged in the mid-twentieth century, in which artists incorporated common objects – comic books, cans of soup, newspapers and more – into their works.

By creating paintings or sculptures of mass culture objects and media stars, the Pop art movement aimed to blur the boundaries between “high” art and “low” culture. The concept that there is no hierarchy of culture and that art may borrow from any source has been one of the most influential characteristics of 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 characterised a sense of optimism during the post war consumer boom of the 1950’s and 1960’s. It coincided with the globalisation of pop music and youth culture, personified by Elvis and The Beatles.

Roy Lichtenstein

Pop Art is affordable. Prints, silkscreens, books, products – pop art embraces mass production and modern reproduction methods as such there is more available at lower prices than that one of a kind oil painting. It fulfills its message that we live in a world of industrialize, mass produced products.

It began as a revolt against the dominant approaches to art and culture and traditional views on what art should be. Young artists felt that what they were taught at art school and what they saw in museums did not have anything to do with their lives or the things they saw around them every day.

Pop art arrived onto the cultural radar with more of a bang than a pop. Considered vulgar by some, revolutionary by others, artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein struck a chord with the consumerist, low-culture society that emerged during the Fifties and swinging Sixties.