What is popular culture?
Pop art is the abbreviation of English "Popular Art", which originated in Britain in the 1950s. Artist Hamilton used collage to complete "Why is life so different and fascinating today?" It is considered to be the first real pop art work. The real development of pop art is in America, the country with the most developed pop culture. American pop art is directly related to abstract expressionism in 1950s. When the younger generation of artists try to replace abstract expressionism with new Dadaism, they find that the developed consumer culture provides them with very rich visual resources, such as advertisements, trademarks, film and television images, cover girls, singers and movie stars, fast food, comics and so on. They put these images directly on the screen, forming a unique artistic style. Pop art treats the culture in the consumption age and information age with optimism, and draws the distance between art and the public through realistic images. Pop art means the end of modernism represented by abstract art and the beginning of a new stage of postmodernism. Although pop art originated from the conservative British art world, it is like a duck to water in a country like the United States, because the strong commercial atmosphere, movies, comics, signboards, rock and porn magazines provide inspiration and positions for pop art, and the list of pop art almost includes everything related to pop culture in our lives: fashion, advertising, TV, movies, novels, MTV, Flash…… ...................................................................