Pop Art

Pop Art is an art movement that started in the 1950s in America. It became most popular in the 1960s. Pop artist incorporated themes of mass media and pop culture in to their artworks such as comics, magazines, advertising, celebrities and other American iconography. A characteristic of pop art is that it removes the represented participant and isolates the object or combines it with other objects for consideration.

The leading figure in Pop Art is Andy Warhol. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1928 and he was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker. Andy Warhol’s most famous artworks include Campbell's Soup (1968) and Marilyn Monroe (1962). The Andy Warhol Museum exists in memory of his life and artwork.


Another famous pop artist is Roy Litchenstein. He was born in Manhattan in 1923 and later became a prominent American pop artist. Art wasn’t included in his schools curriculum so Roy became interested in art and design as a hobby. He studied at the Art Students League of New York and then later at the Ohio State University. He described pop art as "not 'American' painting but actually industrial painting".