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pop art

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pop art or Pop Art
n.
A form of art that depicts objects or scenes from everyday life and employs techniques of commercial art and popular illustration.

pop-art (ppärt) adj.
pop artist n.

pop art
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Movements) a movement in modern art that imitates the methods, styles, and themes of popular culture and mass media, such as comic strips, advertising, and science fiction

Pop Art
British and American art movement of the 1960s which explored antitraditional and often antiesthetic means to present everyday objects and events.
See also: Art
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Noun1.pop art - a school of art that emerged in the United Kingdom in the 1950s and became prevalent in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1960sPop Art - a school of art that emerged in the United Kingdom in the 1950s and became prevalent in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1960s; it imitated the techniques of commercial art (as the soup cans of Andy Warhol) and the styles of popular culture and the mass media
art movement, artistic movement - a group of artists who agree on general principles
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It's not Pop Art but it is popular culture," says curator James Beighton.
Byline: ANI London, August 21 (ANI): A 'Michael Jackson' portrait created by King of Pop Art Andy Warhol in 1984 has sold for an undisclosed amount at auction in New York.
A portrait of a beaming Michael Jackson by pop art legend Andy Warhol, purchased just weeks ago for less than 300,000 dollars, could fetch as much as 10 million dollars at auction next month, art connoisseurs said Thursday.
 
 
 
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