Pop Art emerged in the 1950s as a rebellion against the dominant Abstract Expressionist style, incorporating everyday images from commercial culture like advertisements and product packaging. It aimed to bring art back to material realities and popular culture by using unchanged images from television, magazines, and comics. While beginning in England, Pop Art realized its full potential in the 1960s in New York, eroding the divide between high and low art by celebrating consumer society with witty depictions of media and advertising. The term "Pop Art" was first coined by the critic Lawrence Alloway in 1958.

1. POP ART

2. It rebelled against the Abstract
Expressionist style of painting
dominating the art world of the
1950s(i.e. Jackson Pollock). In sharp
contrast with this style, pop artists
presented images taken unchanged from
the commercial environment around
them.

3. ITS APPEAL
Pop Art brought art
back to the
material realities
of everyday life,
to popular culture
(hence ``pop''),
in which ordinary
people derived most
of their visual
pleasure from
television,
magazines, or
comics.

4. Pop Art emerged
in the mid 1950s
in England,
but realized its
fullest
potential in New
York in
the '60s

5. POP ART
The epic was replaced
with the everyday
and the mass-produced
awarded the same
significance
as the unique; the gulf
between ``high art''
and
``low art'' was eroding
away. The media and
advertising were
favorite subjects for
Pop Art's
often witty
celebrations of
consumer society.

6. SOURCES
The term ``Pop Art'' was first used
by the
English critic Lawrence Alloway in
a 1958 issue
of Architectural Digest to describe
those paintings
that celebrate post-war
consumerism, defy the
psychology of Abstract
Expressionism,
and worship the god of materialism.