It was in London in the 1940 where the first inklings of Pop Art had emerged, an artist by the name of Eduardo Paolozzi had used the idea of taking clippings from American newspapers and magazines, images being mass-consumer products like soda bottles and automobiles and mixing them with images from girlie and body building magazines and using them to create an affect of ridicule and irony.

In Great Britain after World War II, things were a bit bleak, the physical destruction of the war in that country brought with it exorbitant costs. There was widespread rationing which meant luxury items were out of the question and in the art world this meant things like colour printing. As a result in Great Britain many magazines, architecture, clothing and movies were very colourless and drab.

Unlike Great Britain, American land was unscathed by the destruction of the war and as a result industr

Jeff Koons was an outrageous artist who embraced and welcomed the influence of Pop Art. His images although lacking originality, by using the forms of Pop Art he was able to make statements that reflected his own concerns. Koons sees American culture as a source of liberation. In Koons more recent work he uses cheap, ugly objects and tastelessly elevated them to high art, whereas the Pop artists in the 60 took high art into low art.

Keith Haring was influenced by Pop culture and the mass media, he started out as a street graffiti artist, drawing cartoon figures on city walls and using large bold text to mimic American newspaper headlines, from this he moved on to painting canvas using extremely vibrant and fluorescent colours. Keith Haring was a friend and collaborator of Andy Warhol; he was stated as saying this hatever done would not have been possible without Andy. Had Andy not broken the concept of what art is supposed to be, I just wouldn¡¯t have been able to exist?

American magazines and films were big, colourful and glossy. Icons from popular culture now emerged into the limelight and become very influential, they gained power in society akin to that of high profile businessmen and politicians.

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