Pop art was an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. The British artists were the product of the Independent Group (IG), formed in 1952. Members resisted the institute’s commitment to modernist art, design and architecture. Yet it was the Americans who really gave the pop art movement the greatest awareness and success.

Pop art used the visual assets of popular culture within the fine arts movement. The English critic Lawrence Alloway used the term ‘pop’ as an art that made use of objects, materials and technologies of mass culture, to highlight the returns of industrial society. It was characterized by themes and techniques drawn from popular mass culture; such as comics, packaging, advertising, television and cinema.

Pop art evolved at a crucial time in society, after World War II, which experienced enormous economic growth. This was the beginning of commercial manipulation, celebrities, and exhibitionism. I wanted to bring art back to people in their everyday life, working with simple everyday objects.

Around 1962, pop art established itself as a serious and recognized art form. It marked the end of modernism and the beginning of the postmodern era. He merged the division between the fine arts with the media and advertising commercial arts; a division that had been prominent for hundreds of years. Pop art soon became one of the greatest movements of the 20th century. It was beautiful, polished, and glamorous, even though it was mass-produced on a low budget; perfectly captured the changes in society.

Andy Warhol was one of the most important American pop artists. It was Warhol’s paintings that made him so famous all over the world. His painting of Campbell’s soup cans, which was used commercially, has become extremely well known. As well as his Marilyn Monroe silkscreen, which shows Warhol’s own take on American fame.