Pop art

Pop art emerged in Britain and the United States in the mid-to-late 1950s. In Britain Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton explored American consumer imagery in collage and painting; in the United States Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns brought everyday objects and commercial symbols into their work; by the early 1960s Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and others had made it internationally known. Pop art raised the banal, the kitsch and the mass-produced to the status of high art, blurring the line between high and low culture, and often used mechanical means of reproduction; images are sometimes removed from their known context, isolated, or combined with unrelated material. It is marked by irony and ambiguity: some works seem to celebrate the glossy abundance of postwar capitalism, while others question the sameness brought by mass production and media saturation.

Find the borrowed images: an advert, a cartoon character, a logo, a celebrity. Are they enlarged, repeated, or set beside something unrelated?

Where did this image first appear? Has its meaning changed now that it hangs in a gallery?

• Photorealism 극사실회화→Photorealism grew out of Pop Art.