POP ART

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A school of art that emerged in the United Kingdom in the 1950s and became prevalent in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1960s; it imitated the techniques of commercial art (as the soup cans of Andy Warhol) and the styles of popular culture and the mass media

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Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("Pop Art" is a kind of...):

art movement; artistic movement (a group of artists who agree on general principles)

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