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Born out of a lack of representation of regular, contemporary life in the art world, Pop Art sought to blur the lines between ‘high’ art and ‘low’ culture once and for all, and drew much of its inspiration from modern (1950s and 60s) America. While early British Pop Art was inspired by looking at American pop culture from far across the Atlantic, US artists were living within that culture and depicting the visual world around them.
Inspired by day-to-day life with an emphasis on familiar advertising, product packaging, comic strips and well-known actors and musicians of the time, Pop Art …