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POP ART In the late 1950’s Pop Art emerged, influenced by the wealthy boom of popular culture. It established its place as an art movement that produced paintings, sculpture and collages that bridged the gap between the man who paints a billboard and the man who paints a work of art. Stimulated by commercial products, advertisements, newspaper clippings, comic books, and mass culture Pop Artists aimed to take traditional art off its formal pedestal. This movement best fits the description; “The statement of ideas asserting counter traditional positions on art, evolved from sources other that art itself.” -(Hoffert,1988) The years that followed the conclusion of the Second World War saw the rebellious art movement Dadaism re-establish itself. Britain felt the effects, and while Pop Art was practiced, their themes were more nostalgic and didn’t contain the level of intensity as art in the United States. Physically untouched by the war, the United States of America was booming in consumer culture and material wealth. Blossoming with productivity, American lives were being showered in the bright colours of an expanding industry. The social atmosphere brought big, colourful and glossy magazines and films, boosting the