Pop Art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and the late 1950s in the United States.Among the early artists that shaped the pop art movement were Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton in Britain, and Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns in the United States. Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising and news. In pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, and/or combined with unrelated material.
Pop art employs aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects. One of its aims is to use images of popular (as opposed to elitist) culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any culture, most often through the use of irony. It is also associated with the artists' use of mechanical means of reproduction or rendering techniques.
Pop art is widely interpreted as a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of abstract expressionism, as well as an expansion of those ideas. Due to its utilization of found objects and images, it is similar to Dada. Pop art and minimalism are considered to be art movements that precede postmodern art, or are some of the earliest examples of postmodern art themselves.
Pop art often takes imagery that is currently in use in advertising. Product labeling and logos figure prominently in the imagery chosen by pop artists, seen in the labels of Campbell's Soup Cans, by Andy Warhol. Even the labeling on the outside of a shipping box containing food items for retail has been used as subject matter in pop art, as demonstrated by Warhol's Campbell's Tomato Juice Box, 1964 (pictured). - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_art
The majority of Pop artists began their careers in commercial art.
By creating paintings or sculptures of mass culture objects and media stars, the Pop art movement aimed to blur the boundaries between "high" art and "low" culture. The concept that there is no hierarchy of culture and that art may borrow from any source has been one of the most influential characteristics of Pop art. - http://www.theartstory.org/movement-pop-art.htm
A documentary about Pop Art - https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/tate/global-modernisms/global-pop/v/alan-cumming-on-pop-art
Eduardo Paolozzi
Eduardo Paolozzi was a Scottish sculptor and artist, a pioneer of Pop Art - http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/eduardo-paolozzi-living-in-a-materialist-world-8784364.html
Richard Hamilton
Richard Hamilton was an English painter and collage artist, another Pop Art pioneer.
Andy Wharhol
Andy Warhol was the most successful and highly paid commercial illustrator in New York even before he began to make art destined for galleries. Nevertheless, his screenprinted images of Marilyn Monroe, soup cans, and sensational newspaper stories, quickly became synonymous with Pop art. - http://www.theartstory.org/artist-warhol-andy.htm
Robert Raushenberg
Robert Raushenberg was an American Collagist, Painter, and Graphic Artist. was a crucial figure in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to later modern movements. One of the key Neo-Dada movement artists, his experimental approach expanded the traditional boundaries of art, opening up avenues of exploration for future artists, blending materials and techniques. - http://www.theartstory.org/artist-rauschenberg-robert.htm
Raushenberg Foundation - http://www.rauschenbergfoundation.org/art/art-in-context/monogram
A video commentary on «Bed» - https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/abstract-exp-nyschool/ny-school/v/robert-rauschenberg-bed-1955
Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns is an American painter and printmaker.
Johns engaged with modernist precedents like the original Dada movement and Abstract Expressionism in order to actively refute the hierarchy of modernism that reduced the aesthetic experience to the distinct material qualities of the medium and removed it from the viewer's life. He did so by initiating a dialogue with the viewer and their cultural context through his artistic exploration of how people see the things around them. By representing common objects and images in the realm of fine art, Johns broke down the boundaries traditionally separating fine art and everyday life. He effectively laid the foundation for the Pop Art movement's aesthetic embrace of commodity culture with his playfully subversive appropriation of common signs and products. Johns' exploration of semiotics and perception also set the stage for both the Conceptual art movement and thePostmodern movement of the following decades, while his multimedia collaborations withJohn Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and Merce Cunningham ushered in the dominance of theperformance art movement in the 1960s and 1970s. - http://www.theartstory.org/artist-johns-jasper.htm
He uses encaustic medium in his famous flag.
James Rosenquist
Rosenquist is a Pop Art painter who started as a billboard worker, who hated advertisement but had ti live on it. His paintings are huge and he usually outs togetther disparate images.
F-111 work commented by Rosenquist in Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/pop/v/moma-rosenquist-f111
An interesting interview follows: