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Pop Art is "popular, transient, expendable, low-cost, mass-produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, and Big Business", as quoted in the Art world. The term "Pop Art'' was first used by the English critic Lawrence Alloway in a 1958 issue of Architectural Digest to describe those paintings that celebrate post-war consumerism, defy Abstract Expressionism, and adore materialism. Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Roy Lichtenstein are the leading artists that started the movement of Pop Art, which brought art back to the material realities of everyday life, to popular culture, in which ordinary people derived most of their visual pleasure from television, magazines, or comics. Pop Art is a direct offspring of Dadaism in the way it incorporates images from the street, the superma...

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