Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in
Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art
presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including
imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc. In
Pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known
context, isolated, and/or combined with unrelated material. The
concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to
the attitudes that led to it. Pop art employs aspects of mass
culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural
objects. It is widely interpreted as a reaction to the then-
dominant ideas of abstract expressionism, as well as an
expansion upon them. And due to its utilization of found objects
and images it is similar to Dada. Pop art is aimed to employ
images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art,
emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture,
most often through the use of irony. It is also associated with
the artists' use of mechanical means of