Pop Art, visual arts movement of the 1950s and 1960s, principally in the United States and Great Britain.

... Pop Art, visual arts movement of the 1950s and 1960s, principally in the United States and Great Britain. The images of pop art (shortened from "popular art") were taken from mass culture. Some artists duplicated beer bottles, soup cans, comic strips, road signs, and similar objects in paintings, collages, and sculptures. Others incorporated the objects themselves into their paintings or sculptures, sometimes in startlingly modified form. Materials of modern technology, such as plastic, urethane foam, and acrylic paint, often figured prominently. One of the most important artistic movements of the 20th century, pop art not only influenced the work of subsequent artists but also had an impact on commercial, graphic, and fashion design. Artists in Pop Art: * Andy Warhol * Roy Lichtenstein * Peter Blake * Jasper Johns * Robert Rauschenberg Surrealism, movement in literature and the fine arts, founded by the French poet and critic André Breton. Breton published his Surrealist Manifesto in Paris

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