Pop Art!!

Mao in Warhol style

Pop art, the term of pop art comes during 1950s in Great Britain, and refer to the interest of a number of artists in the images of consumer products, mass media, advertising, and comics.

Pop art often takes form of an imagery that which is currently in use in advertising. Product labeling and logos figure prominently in the imagery chosen by pop artists, such as in the Campbell's Soup Cans labels, by Andy Warhol. Even the labeling on the shipping carton containing retail items has been used as subject matter in pop art, for example in Warhol's Campbell's Tomato Juice Box 1964, or his Brillo Soap Box sculptures.


 

Early pop art in Britain was a inspired by American popular culture which is viewed from afar, while the American artists were inspired by the experiences, of living within that culture. Similarly, pop art kinda similar with Dadaism.  While pop art and Dadaism explored some of the same subjects, pop art replaced the destructive, satirical, and anarchic impulses of the Dada movement with detached affirmation of the artifacts of mass culture, in which we refer to as "pop culture".

Andy Warhol Immortalizing Marilyn Monroe

Pop Art therefore coincided with the youth and pop music phenomenon of the 1950s and '60s, and became very much a part of the image of fashionable, "swingin'" London. Peter Blake, for example, designed album covers for Elvis Presley and the Beatles and placed film stars such as Brigitte Bardot in his pictures in the same way that Warhol was immortalizing Marilyn Monroe in the USA.