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Pop Art is an art, where everyday objects are used (comics, cans, burgers, etc.) as a subject, and often included into the work. The Pop Art is the direction of the Visual Arts in Western Europe and the United States of the late 1950-1960-ies. The term “Pop Art” was firstly used by Lawrence Alloway in his critical article, but in the meaning of “pop culture”. Pop Art is characterized by the portrayal of all features of pop culture and has a powerful influence on modern life; images are taken from the mass media and especially advertising. Although critics characterized ...

Works of art can communicate critical information on the times in which they were created. Different time periods and different cultural backgrounds provide the stylistic and media elements of a work of art. There may be no specific intent to portray the times, but that is what happens when the artist creates a work of art in a particular artistic period. Examples of art works from two distinctly different times and cultures will demonstrate how the art in the Medieval period of European history and Pop Art from the late mid-20th century differ. The Medieval period in art history ...

Marcel Duchamp was a French and American painter, chess player, sculptor, and writer who worked with conceptual art, Cubism, and Dadaism. He is mostly famous for the influence he had on the art of the twentieth century and especially Pop Art represented by Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, etc. Duchamp to Pop is the Norton Simon Museum’s exhibition aimed to show the impact of Marcel Duchamp over Pop Art and its artists. The purpose of this paper is to analyze one of Duchamp’s works, Boîte-en-valise, and discover the way it influenced on the Pop Art movement. Boî ...