common everyday items that most people like and recognize. items like record labels, or logos,

or packaging, and fashion pictures of people, Road signs, hamburgers, money, soda bottles, (

you know, stuff you see around you, anything currently in vogue RIGHT NOW) and machinery

are also common subjects. Also included are themes of popular culture taken from movies,

Pop-art is also influenced by mass-media. Webster's dictionary definition of Mass-media: A

means of communication (newspapers, radio, motion pictures, television) that is designed to

reach the "mass" (majority, most people) of people that it tends to set standards, ideals, and

aims of the masses. That is to say, mass-media is a way of sending a message to a vast number

of people, and mass media can also influence this vast number of people's way of thinking.

Because Mass-media can influence popular culture, it also influences pop-art

In the early 1960s Pop Art exploded onto the streets of New York to the

immense dismay of the art establishment but to the great delight of the average

citizen. Suddenly, T.V. dinners and canned spaghetti, de

also-invites the observer to touch-observer's involvement in the work of art-radical.

despite inadvertently promoting the very thing it seemed to be satirising, that is,

Pop Art, on the other hand, laughed at the critics and plugged right into the

of a toothbrush for the Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld. ssculptures were soft and mushy.

let the populace in on the secret that they had suspected all along: avant-garde

Some common words found in the essay are:
Pop Art, York Chicago, Esters Krefeld, Abstract Expressionism, Home Appealing, pop art, Suddenly TV, Art Popular, American Pop, Art Institute, University Haven, popular culture, mass media, culture majority, majority people, art hardly, consumerism american, consumer culture, mass produced, american pop,
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