What is Pop Art and how did it begin?
Pop Art was an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 50s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist’s use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of Fine Art. It started with a return to hard-edged comopsition and representational art used as a response to artists using irony and parody to defuse Abstract Expressionism. It started with artists like Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Andy Warhol.
