POP ART

Abstract

First appearing in England in the 1950s, it flourished in the United States during the early 1960s, the moment of Pop's greatest popularity. Although it was an international style--with practitioners in Asia and Latin America, as well as in the Soviet Union and Western Europe--its most famous manifestations were seen in the work of American artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Mel Ramos, James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol, and Tom Wesselmann.