Why Was Pop Art Started?
It was called Pop Art because the subject in the painting was popular. Pop Art is the object or the subject in the painting that is popular; it is not made out of pop cans. Some artist kept repeating the object over and over, or they would make it look like a comic picture. Pop Art started in London in the mid-1950’s. They called it Propaganda Art instead of Pop Art. This style of art came to the United States in the mid-1960s. Pop Art in the United States was an expression of the optimistic spirit of the 1960’s.
