Pop art started with the New York artists Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, and Claes Oldenburg, all of whom drew on popular imagery and were actually part of an international phenomenon. read more
Pop Art was a visual art movement that began in the 1950s and was influenced by popular mass culture drawn from television, movies, advertisements and comic books. The consumer boom of the 1950s and the general sense of optimism throughout the culture influenced the work of pop artists. read more
Some critics have cited the Pop art choice of imagery as an enthusiastic endorsement of the capitalist market and the goods it circulated, while others have noted an element of cultural critique in the Pop artists' elevation of the everyday to high art: tying the commodity status of the goods represented to the status of the art object itself, emphasizing art's place as, at base, a commodity. read more