pop art (redirected from pop-art)

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.

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pop-art (ppärt) adj.

pop artist n.

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pop art

Noun

a movement in modern art that uses the methods, styles, and themes of popular culture and mass media

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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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Noun

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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 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