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'''Pop Art''' is a style of visual art. It featured the use of elements from [[pop culture|popular culture]]. Famous examples included [[Andy Warhol]]'s [[painting]]s of cans of Campbell's Soup, [[Roy Liechtenstein]]'s paintings that resembled printed comic strips, magnified to reveal their [[Benday]] halftone tints as a striking pattern of dots, and [[Jasper Johns]]'s paintings of maps and flags.
'''Pop Art''' is a style of visual art. It featured the use of elements from [[pop culture|popular culture]] and employs techniques of commercial art and popular illustration. Famous examples included [[Andy Warhol]]'s [[painting]]s of cans of Campbell's Soup, [[Roy Liechtenstein]]'s paintings that resembled printed comic strips, magnified to reveal their [[Benday]] halftone tints as a striking pattern of dots, and [[Jasper Johns]]'s paintings of maps and flags.
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A movement that first emerged in Great Britain at the end of the 1950s as a reaction against the seriousness of [[Abstract Expressionism|abstract expressionism]]. British and American pop artists employed a common imagery found in comic strips, soup cans, and Coke bottles to express formal [[abstract]] relationships. [http://www.answers.com/topic/pop-art]
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== See also ==
== See also ==