Pop Art Period
Beginning the mid 1950s in Britain/
in the late 1950s in the United States
• Challenges tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the massproduced
visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the
perspective of fine art.
• Removes the material from its context and isolates the object, or
combines it with other objects, for contemplation.
• Aims to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art,
emphasizing
• the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture, most often through the
use of irony.
• Is associated with the artists' use of mechanical means of reproduction
or rendering techniques.