Explore Pop art

The Pop art movement emerged in the U.S. and U.K. in the mid- to late-1950s, spurred by artists’ interest in challenging traditional fine art styles. By incorporating elements of pop culture, artists like Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, or Richard Hamilton seized on recognizable aesthetics typically associated with comic books, advertising, or banal or mass-produced kitsch.

Lichtenstein, for example, made large-scale paintings influenced by comic book frames. Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans tie in an American pantry staple, and Richard Hamilton’s use of collage incorporated magazine imagery into quirky and ironic commentary on mid-century society.