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Pop art - Definition

Pop art is an artistic movement that is a rejection of abstract expressionism and aims to return to figurative art while incorporating themes and techniques from mass culture. The term was coined in 1956 by British critic Laurence Alloway but didn't entirely stick until well into the 1960s. In the meantime the movement was being called Neo-dada, a name which reveals some of the thinking behind this type of art. There is a strong influence of Dada in Pop art.

Pop art is also to some extent a satire of the philistine acquisitiveness of patrons of art and of official art institutions – for example, early pop artists induced important museums to invest large sums of money in paintings of mundane subjects, done with acrylic paint on plywood, which quickly deteriorated. This movement gained strength in the 1960s and was centered in England and the United States early on.

Notable Pop Artists include:

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Pop - Example Usage

_LethalBeauty: You the type of nigga that pop up when niggas rolling that kush huh?
gabibatis: #30FatosSobreMim 4. Gosto de todos os tipos de música, mas eu ouço muito Rap, Rock, Pop e Sertanejo Universitário.
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MaddieStearn: @melpatrickbaby pop up now this why im alive baby 4 u 2 tell ur problems to me now gwarn gyal
RawWhore: RT @BluntForceField: I had never entertained the possibility of me being gay until I heard the Pop Up Video jingle.
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