What is Pop Art?
Pop art is necessarily a style of modern art that draws inspiration from commercial and consumer aspects of everyday life, especially in the American culture. It emerged as a movement in the 1950s in Britain, and quickly spread out to the United States. Much of its roots can be traced back to the Cultural Revolution led by activists, thinkers, and artists who aimed to restructure a social order ruled by conformity. Pop art paintings tend to be focused on bold colours and realistic imagery and seem to not have much of a hidden meaning as and because pop artists don’t seem to apply traditional techniques of perspective to create an illusion of realism as in the case of different other art forms. Pop art imagery is generally included in advertising, mass media, comic books and in elements of popular culture like magazines, movies, food packaging, etc. Due to its widespread usage in commercial imagery, pop art is one of the most recognizable styles of modern art in today’s world. Pop ar...