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By bridging high and low culture, pop art reflected America's own growing dependence and fascination with mass production and images of celebrities.

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Roy Lichtenstein lived in the XX cent., a remarkable figure of American Pop Art. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.

Haring brought elements of popular culture to museums and showed how seemingly simple and even cartoon elements of the self-taught may be appreciated.

Pop art started with the New York artists Andy Warhol , Roy Lichtenstein , James Rosenquist , and Claes Oldenburg , all of whom drew on popular imagery and were actually part of an international phenomenon. Following the popularity of the Abstract Expressionists , Pop's reintroduction of identifiable imagery (drawn from mass media and popular culture) was a major shift for the direction of modernism. The subject matter became far from traditional "high art" themes of morality, mythology, and classic history; rather, Pop artists celebrated commonplace objects and people of everyday life, in this way seeking to elevate popular culture to the level of fine art. Perhaps owing to the incorporation of commercial images, Pop art has become one of the most recognizable styles of modern art.

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