Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. (context arts English) A genre of art that uses elements of popular culture, often using techniques from commercial art and advertising
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thumb|upright=1.3| Eduardo Paolozzi. I was a Rich Man's Plaything (1947), part of his Bunk! series, is considered the initial bearer of "pop art" and first to display the word "pop".|alt=An image of a sexy woman smiles as a revolver aimed at her head goes "Pop!" thumb|upright=1.3| Andy Warhol, Campbell's Tomato Juice Box, 1964. Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on wood, 10 inches × 19 inches × 9½ inches (25.4 × 48.3 × 24.1 cm), Museum of Modern Art, New York City|alt=A plain-looking box with the Campbell's label sits on the ground. Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and the late 1950s in the United States. Among the early artists that shaped the pop art movement were Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton in Britain, and Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns in the United States. Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising and news. In pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, and/or combined with unrelated material.
Pop art employs aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects. One of its aims is to use images of popular (as opposed to elitist) culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any culture, most often through the use of irony. It is also associated with the artists' use of mechanical means of reproduction or rendering techniques.
Pop art is widely interpreted as a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of abstract expressionism, as well as an expansion of those ideas. Due to its utilization of found objects and images, it is similar to Dada. Pop art and minimalism are considered to be art movements that precede postmodern art, or are some of the earliest examples of postmodern art themselves.
Pop art often takes imagery that is currently in use in advertising. Product labeling and logos figure prominently in the imagery chosen by pop artists, seen in the labels of Campbell's Soup Cans, by Andy Warhol. Even the labeling on the outside of a shipping box containing food items for retail has been used as subject matter in pop art, as demonstrated by Warhol's Campbell's Tomato Juice Box, 1964 (pictured).
Pop Art is the debut album from UK pop/rock band Transvision Vamp. It was released in October 1988 and featured the band's first top ten hit " I Want Your Love". The album reached #4 in the UK, and peaked at #13 in Australia, where it was the 25th highest-selling album of 1989.
Pop art is a visual art movement that emerged in the 1950s in Britain and the United States.
Pop art may also refer to:
- PopArt: Pet Shop Boys – The Hits, an album by the UK electronic music duo Pet Shop Boys
- Pop Art (album), the debut album from UK pop/rock band Transvision Vamp
- " Pop Art", a short story by an American author, Joe Hill
- Pop Art, the debut album by UK pop musician MPHO
- Pop Art, Inc., an American interactive marketing agency
Usage examples of "pop art".
Stratton, slouched and alone at the rear of a reception room in Xian's Renmin Daxia Hotel, disliked Prudoe's showmanship as much as he despised his pop art scholarship.
Tall white arches and columns outlined against a blue sky, fountains, statues, carefully planned illumination, a pop art playground, and an enormous Japanese wind-bell are all used to create a mood of casual elegance for the shopper.
All the things like pop art and experimental theatre started there.
And just when you thought pop art had been buried with Andy Warhol, you discover realistic renderings of a can of Van Camp's pork and beans.
It was vividly sleek, a Pop Art penis, not at all like Bolin himself, all rumple and shrug.