Pop art: the era, the artists, and the comparisons.

Pop Art; an Introduction to the Era; In this investigation I plan to conduct an investigation into the similarities and differences between American and British pop art. Pop art started in the late 1950's in England, and grew in the United States in the early 1960's. English art critic Lawrence Holloway first used the term Pop in an edition of architectural digest; he was describing all post war work centered on consumerism and materialism, and …

…just producing new images everyday. They are only enlarging the popular culture. Everything is just an image, ready to be consumed. The real aura of art work is death, the millions of copies are the survival of it. Unlike British pop art, American artists did not romanticize their imagery; a consequence of US pop art is an attempt to re-validate purely realistic painting. Essentially, Pop Art is conceptual. Pictures become things, and things become pictures.