Pop art is a movement started in the UK in 1950 before migrating over to New York City in the early 1960’s. It was founded on a rebellious nature against Expressionism as Pop Artists found it to be very pretentious. Pop Art’s attention is focused on popular culture, hence the name Pop Art, where artists would use culture icons that were trending in the media, and often enough Pop Art was featured in the media.
Many artists include the infamous Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Roy Liechtenstein,
Kira Mask, Cristo, Keith Herring, Jasper Johns and Larry Avers, all of them being socially outcasted by the popular culture in society.
In 1959 Pop Art made its way onto Album covers, magazines, everything. It was an art movement that moved with modern society at the time and was possibly one of the first ways in which art and graphic design merged completely. 
Pop Art uses bright, bold and clashing colours to stand out in the media. It featured a lot of existing imagery through collages, stencilling and comics using images of consumer goods to fit in with the consumer society. It was a huge step away from the traditional fine art and challenged the techniques that fine art uses. Pop art is considered to be a post modern art movement and has some of the earliest examples of post modern art.
Unit 05 - Contextual Influences 