Pop-Art began in England with the Independent Group, a group of several kinds of artists who wanted to escape like art or and to bring modern technology into art.
In America Pop-Art became popular in the sixties with , and . Pop-Art brought everyday objects into art and recognized the power of images.
The word ‘Pop’ comes from ‘popular’ and uses as symbols of art which should be easy to understand, like advertising for a child. Pop art takes art down and shows it as something cheap and common, like . This is why industrial processes like photography and are used.
As a result, the is absent and the work is no longer unique. This approach was used in other fields like architecture and , of which the Sacco armchair (1968) is an example.
After the 2nd World War, the political balance of the world changed. Europe was poor and exhausted and needed reconstruction. On the other hand, the USA was rich and its industries were powerful. An era of and began and in the 60s pop art recognized this.