- 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.
- The attitudes that led to it being WW2 and abstract expressionism.
- 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.
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