Pop Art first emerged in Britain as part of the general Pop movement. In 1963 the Beatles had three number one hits in Britain and their American tour the following year would establish Britain as the dominant world leader of youth culture. In the mid 60s boutiques opened in cities throughout Britain and soon became popular with the youth because of the inexpensive trendy clothing they sold. The interior of these shops was dimly lighted and pop music played loudly the whole time. From B

In America, teens realized that they no longer wanted to live in the same interior space decorated by their parents. They began to become more independent and wanted their personal spaces to reflect that. Teens started decorating their rooms with posters and owned items like records and record players. Young people could be found hanging out by jukeboxes and going to drive-in fast food outlets that were newly designed just for them. Artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Claes Oldenburg popularized Pop Art in America with some of their works. They took everyday objects such as soup cans and hamburgers and transformed them into art that stood as a parody of the consumer society. The fine artists also took mass culture as their source of inspiration and Roy Lichtenstein even reproduced the effect of the cheap printing of comic books in his paintings, which are made up of an overall pattern of dots.

Andy Warhol came to define the Pop movement and revolutionized the role of the screenprint in American art. In 1962 he began screenprinting photographic images onto canvas, and works on paper soon followed. By the late 1960s he became his own publisher and, using commercial screenprint workshops, founded Factory Additions to release print portfolios based on specific themes in his paintings. These portfolios include Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn) and Campbell's Soup I, which are among his most well known pieces.

Claes Oldenburg was known for his unique furniture design. He created soft sculptures of objects such as huge stuffed hamburgers and then transferred them into pieces of furniture. His designs were popular with the youth because inexpensive reproductions were available at botiques where they re

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