Origins

The origins of pop art in North America and Great Britain developed differently. In the United States, it marked a return to hard-edged composition and representational art as a response by artists using impersonal, mundane reality, irony and parody to defuse the personal symbolism and "painterly looseness" of Abstract Expressionism. By contrast, the origin in post-War Britain, while employing irony and parody, was more academic with a focus on the dynamic and paradoxical imagery of American popular culture as powerful, manipulative symbolic devices that were affecting whole patterns of life, while improving prosperity of a society. Early pop art in Britain was a matter of ideas fueled by American popular culture viewed from afar, while the American artists were inspired by the experience of living within that culture. Similarly, pop art was both an extension and a repudiation of Dadaism. While pop art and Dadaism explored some of the same subjects, pop art replaced the destructive, satirical, and anarchic impulses of the Dada movement with detached affirmation of the artifacts of mass culture. Among those artists seen by some as producing work leading up to Pop art are Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, and Man Ray.

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Origin of the name Pop Art

It was called Pop Art because the subject of the art was popular. The term Pop Art (popular art) was firstly used in mass media by Lawrence Alloway, who was an English art critic and curator who worked in the United States from the 1960s. He first used the term "mass popular art" in the mid-1950s and used the term Pop Art in the 1960s to indicate that art has a basis in the popular culture of its day and takes from it a faith in the power of images. Alloway, alongside the artists Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi, was among the founding members of the Independent Group, a collective of artists, architects, and writers who explored radical approaches to contemporary visual culture during their meetings at ICA in London between 1952 and 1955. They became the forerunners to British Pop art. At their first meeting Paolozzi gave a visual lecture entitled ‘Bunk’ (short for ‘bunkum’ meaning nonsense) which took an ironic look at the all-American lifestyle. This was illustrated by a series collages created from American magazines that he received from GI’s still resident in Paris in the late 1940s. ‘I was a Rich Man’s Plaything’, one of the ‘Bunk’ series, was the first visual artwork to include the word ‘POP’.

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Pop Art.

Pop Art - is a famous art movement, that was firstly introduced in the mid-1950s in England and in the late 1950s in the USA, but which is still loved by millions of  people.

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