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Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s in America and Britain, drawing inspiration from sources in popular and commercial culture. Different cultures and countries contributed to the movement during the 1960s and 70s. Roy Lichtenstein.

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Modernist critics were horrified by the pop artists' use of such 'low' subject matter and by their apparently uncritical treatment of it. In fact pop both took art into new areas of subject matter and developed new ways of presenting it in art and can be seen as one of the first manifestations of postmodernism.

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Pop Art characterised a sense of optimism during the post war consumer boom of the 1950's and 1960's. ... Pop Art aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture, most often through the use of irony.

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Andy Warhol was a successful magazine and ad illustrator . He had a very realist approach on pop art ,he would paint over the celebrities in bright colors , sometimes exaggerating their features.​

Featuring famous people in pop art became one of his defining characteristics of the movement throughout the 60s.​

This piece would be considered as an ironic commentary on mass medias obsession with celebrity culture as he uses Monroes face knowing she embodies celebrity status and the concept of sex symbol .​

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Roy Lichtenstein paintings are based on comic strips , his work is synonymous with the idea of pop art. It's also interesting how he manages to evoke strong emotions and make his work look very comic book like through his paintings which are made using mechanical process of dots , he was painting digital pixels and sometimes hell paint the dots by hand. ​

He's also described pop art as '' not American painting but industrial painting

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His work challenged many peoples own aesthetic.​

His art included some sort of architecture and design.​

His art is considered ​

as southern .his art varies from intense still life to simplified version of objects , such as stairs and restaurants . He used many techniques , from scraps of paper to similar paints Italian plasterers and painters would use to decorate restaurants , creating a 3d effect.​

Through his art it is visible that he understood the ways in which light falls on a subject. His paintings weren't about abstract but the kind of idea of looking back for the structure of interior spaces within paintings and rethinking it and coming up a new version​

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Kieth Haring was an artists and a social activist who’s work was a response and influenced by street culture in New York . His art made a statement this he became well known in the art industry with his bold , cartoony and graffiti influenced style . ​

I like that his take on art is very personal as he included his personal and societies struggles within his work .​

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A British artist , art theorist, sociologist and future studies searcher . A member of the independent group : a British movement that originated  pop art . ​

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His work included cut outs from 1955 then fresh post-war colour printed American magazines that were made into collages .these cut outs included fine arts, graphics , exhibition design , television and

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-He was fascinated and interested by the graffiti he saw in the streets and subway graffiti ​

-He wanted people to experience art without feeling inhibited ​

-He saw art as something that can be touched, felt and manipulated ​

-His art exhibition at the Fung gallery was a reference to the world of hip-hop culture ​

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Wangechi Muttu is a Kenyan-born American visual artists, known for her paintings, sculptures etc.​

For her work she drew inspiration from her experiences in girls' catholic school, and a number of violence events which took place in Africa's colonial and post-colonial history.​

She was mostly influenced by artists such as Hannah Hoch and Richard Hamilton, she made collages exploring how state violence shows up on people's bodies.​

Her collages incorporate found materials, magazine cutouts, sculpture, and painted imagery.​

I find her collage pieces to be beautiful and complicated with all the different mediums she uses to create her pieces .​

I would describe her work as being close to minimalism considering the verity of patterns and colors she uses

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Bille Zangewa is a South-African textile artists, for her collage tapestries which depict everyday public and domestic scenes, she used fabric and thread, hand stitching, sewing and embroidery. Her work revolves around exploring femininity and identify. Her work, especially herself portraits incorporate silk as a symbol for the female experiences.​

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Gunta stolzl is a German textile artists who uses weave to create her pieces, well known for being the only female master who brought enormous changes within the weaving department as it transitioned from individual pictorial works to modern industrial design. She used many different techniques and materials to create her pieces such as tablecloth, curtains and wall coverings.​

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Bisa Butler is an American fibre artists known for her use of appliquéd fibre in her vibrant quilted portraits celebrating black life. For her portraits she used brightly coloured cotton, wool and chiffon fabrics. With her technique her work look more like paintings rather than quilted portraits. With more layers and types of fabric used to create depth, texture and shadows in her work.​

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Ana Teresa Barboza a Peruvian textile artist who is well known for her three-dimensional textile art which depicts natural forms such as plant life and landscapes.​

She is known for her labour intensive, mixed media works that involve patchwork, knitting and embroidery. Using embroidery, yarn and wool she is able to create landscapes and other imagery that exists between tapestry and sculpture.​

With the use of this technique she is able to imitate the flow of waves and grass where each piece breaks out of its embroidery hoop and flows down out of the canvas creating the three-dimensional affect.​

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Before dedicating her life to her passion in art she was a nun known as sister Mary Corita Kent.​

Corita Kent was well known for her spiritual expression, love for god and her political opinions expressed through her artwork which would be make using silk screen printing.​

Her art is considered a form of pop art with the colours she would use in her work.​

Her work carried out a lot of social justice causes such as poverty, racism and war.​

She would merge pop art aesthetics inspired by Andy Warhol with spiritual and political thinking which helped her art reach out into a wider audience.​