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Paolozzi produced one of the first works of true pop art, [i was a rich mans plaything]

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the independent group where the first pop artists in london's art scene. This group produced many of the first exhibitions to feature pop art, among them were Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi, two extremely influential college artists who helped define the movement when it was in its infancy.

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Frank Cordell may have coined the term "pop art"

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the term pop art and the general concept that it entails is well established among the members of the independent group. it has now become a defined movement.

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the independent group is now dissolved. however many of them feature in the exhibition This is Tomorrow.

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Lawrence Alloway writes an essay about pop art called the arts and the mass media which helps to popularise the movement and define it.

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Billy Apple ventured to the united states to meet Andy Warhol. British and American artists collaborate and help to bolster prominence on the art scene.

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the term pop art is used for the first time in the USA by the modern art in New York. Andy Warhol exhibits his Campbells soup cans for the first time. this was his first solo exhibition.

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Roy Lichtenstein produces one of his most famous paintings Drowning girl. which is an almost exact copy of a panel from the DC comic secret hearts.

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the American supermarket exhibition takes place

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Andy Warhol is shot by radical feminist Valerie Solanas and nearly dies from his wounds. the incident takes a toll on Warhols career and both his work and output and the movement in general begins to slow down.