What is a good definition of Pop art?

Answer 1

In America at least, it means art that reflects popular culture. Warhol reflected the popular culture of celebrities, musicians, consumer products, etc. Lichtenstein reflected the popular culture of comic books and advertisements and how they mirrored American life.

Answer 2

Pop art was a visual artistic movement that emerged in the early 1950s in England and in parallel in the late 1950's in the United States. Pop art is one of the major art movements of the Twentieth Century. Characterized by themes and techniques drawn from popular mass culture, such as advertising and comic books, pop art is widely interpreted as either a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of abstract expressionism or an expansion upon them. Pop art, like pop music, aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture. Pop art at times targeted a broad audience, and often claimed to do so. However, much of pop art is considered very academic, as the unconventional organizational practices used often make it difficult for some to comprehend. Pop art and Minimalism are considered to be the last Modern art movements and thus the precursors to Contemporary art or Postmodern art.
Notable Pop artists:
- Keith Haring
- Richard Hamilton
- Jasper Johns
- Roy Lichtenstein
- Claes Oldenburg
- John McHale
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Andy Warhol

Answer 3

You asking a question about something visual so here's a link that may help to define Pop Art.

I include the standard definition from deviantart.com for submissions to that category:

"Paintings that depicts objects or scenes from everyday life that employ techniques of commercial art and popular illustration. Understandably, this definition is open to a degree of individual interpretation. Please browse this category and perhaps do some online research on the genre (the work of Andy Warhol, for instance) before submitting into it to ensure that you understand what Pop Art defines."

Answer 4

Reflects the ongoing trends within a specific area of the society that the artist has an interest in, in a way pop art is another tool of comunication, where issues that the artist comment upon, high art cannot always do this because of where high art is exhibited.

Answer 5

Pop art was an art movement of the ´50s,( which has perhaps origins in the ready mades of Marcel Duchamp, ) which used every day objects and commercial art, comic books etc., as subject matter and portrayed them in a very literal way and yet with a twist: such as Jasper Johns" beer cans" made of solid bronze.

Answer 6

Andy Warhol.

Answer 7

When my Pop draws a picture.

Answer 8

Waste of a good canvas
Trad art best