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What is british origin?
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Independent Group at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Richard Hamilton's Just What is it...
What is american development?
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Pop Art moved to New York and Los Angeles in the early 1960s. Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, Tom Wesselmann, Robert Indiana, Mel Ramos. Jasper Johns (Flag, 1954-1955) and Robert Rauschenberg (combine paintings, late 1950s) are usually cited as precursors.
What is british 1960s?
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David Hockney, Peter Blake, Allen Jones, Patrick Caulfield. More figurative and image-based; less industrial than the American Pop.
What is international reach?
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Pop Art influenced art across Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Japan's Superflat (Takashi Murakami) is partly a Pop descendant.
What is brillo Boxes?
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Silkscreen ink on plywood. American postmodern threshold.
What is marilyn Diptych?
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Silkscreen on canvas, Tate London.
What is whaam?
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Oil and acrylic on canvas, two panels, 173 by 406 cm, Tate London. Comic-book panel enlarged and painted.
What is a Bigger Splash?
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Acrylic on canvas, 244 by 244 cm, Tate London. Los Angeles swimming pool, painted in his signature flat colour.
What is soft Toilet?
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Vinyl filled with kapok. Soft sculpture of a commercial object.
What is andy Warhol?
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American, the dominant figure. See the Warhol case study.
What is roy Lichtenstein?
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American. Painted enlargements of comic book panels using simulated Ben-Day dots.
What is david Hockney?
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British. Painter of swimming pools, Los Angeles light, and double portraits.
What is claes Oldenburg?
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Swedish-American. Soft sculptures and monumental public sculptures of mundane objects.
What is richard Hamilton?
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British. The originating Pop figure.

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