notable pieces
Pop Art was a significant turning point in modernism's trajectory with its welcome return of recognizable iconography taken from popular culture and the media. Pop was born in the United Kingdom in the 1950s, in the midst of a postwar socio-political milieu where artists gravitated toward praising banal objects and elevating the everyday to the level of great art. Pop has origins in Neo-Dada and other groups that questioned the fundamental idea of "art" itself. The most well-known supporters of the movement were American artists Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, and others who quickly followed suit and rejected traditional historical subject matter in favour of the mass-produced goods and images that dominated the visual arts and contemporary society (theartstory.com).
