Arts & Culture
Pop art
Andy Warhol: Campbell's Soup Cans
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Arts & Culture
- Key People:
- Lawrence Alloway
- Richard Hamilton
- Related Topics:
- art
- soft sculpture
- On the Web:
- Open Library Publishing Platform - Origins of Contemporary Art, Design, and Interiors - Pop Art (Apr. 03, 2024)
Pop art, art movement of the late 1950s and ’60s that was inspired by commercial and popular culture. Although it did not have a specific style or attitude, Pop art was defined as a diverse response to the postwar era’s commodity-driven values, often using commonplace objects (such as comic strips, soup cans, road signs, and hamburgers) as subject matter or as part of the work. Pop art was a descendant of Dada, a nihilistic movement current in the 1920s that ridiculed the seriousness of contemporary Parisian art and, more broadly, the political and cultural situation that had brought war to ...(100 of 1307 words)