They wanted to challenge to values of mass culture, post-war manufacturing, and the media boom.
Read on to discover six famous artists who defined the radical movement.
Here are six iconic artists who dominated the Pop Art movement.
Andy Warhol, 1968 (Photo viaWikimedia Commons, Public Domain)
Warhol even opened his workshopaffectionately called The Factorywhere he produced his work with an assembly line-like team of assistants.
Some of his most iconic works feature famous faces such as Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley.
The work reflects Hamiltons cynical interest in popular culture and modern technology.
Roy Lichtenstein, 1967 (Photo viaWikimedia Commons, (CC0 1.0))
I am nominally copying, but I am really restating the copied thing in other terms, Lichtenstein said.
In doing that, the original acquires a totally different texture.
It isn’t thick or thin brushstrokes, it’s dots and flat colors and unyielding lines.
Robert Rauschenberg, 1968 (Photo viaWikimedia Commons, (CC0 1.0))
Towards the end of his career, Lichtenstein began to move away from his comic-infused artworks.
By doing so, Lichtenstein transformed classic paintings into cartoon-style works that resonate with the modern masses.
After visiting Andy Warhol’s studio in 1962, he was inspired to take up silkscreen printing.
His prints were often overlaid with expressive brush strokes in oil paint.
By merging painting with photographic printmaking, Rauschenberg bridged the gap between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.
The 83-year-old British artist works as a painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer.
However, he is perhaps best known for his vibrant paintings of Los Angeles swimming pools.
His aim was to capture the split-second event in a still image.
Keith Haring
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Keith Harings trademark line drawings are instantly recognizable as his own visual language.
He began his career as an undergroundgraffitiartist in NYC but shot to international fame during the 1980s.
He used his art to explore topics of social and political importance.
In particular, his artwork often deals with themes of homosexuality and AIDS.
This subject was of particular importance to the artist, as he himself was diagnosed in 1988.
Sadly, Harings life was cut short in 1990 when he died of AIDS-related complications at age 31.
His legacy, however, lives on.
