Pop art is a visual art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in parallel in

the late 1950s in the United States. The coinage of the term Pop Art is often credited to British

art critic/curator, Lawrence Alloway in an essay titled The Arts and the Mass Media, although the

term he uses is "popular mass culture" Nevertheless, Alloway was one of the leading critics to

defend mass culture and Pop Art as a legitimate art form. 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 opie art, pop music, aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art

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pop art photos </a> or emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture. It has

also been defined by the artist’s use of mechanical means of reproduction or rendering techniques

that down play the expressive hand of the artist. Pop art at times targeted a broad audience, and

often claimed to do so.

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