The dots in some Pop Art pieces are a reference to comic book art and color offset printing.
Benday dots, which are popular in pop art and are the trademark of Roy Lichtenstein, were invented by an illustrator named Benjamin Day from the United States.
ben-day dots , primary colors , and comic strips
The reason its called pop art is because the artist intention is meant to make the art pop out at you. Most of the time though it doesn't work.
It was about a popular art of the era called "pop art".
Pop is a shortening of the word Popular. Pop art uses everyday objects (eg: Andy Warhol painted soup cans) or people everyone will recognise (like celebrities), that's why it's call Popular Art.
It is a subtype of Modern Art called Pop Art.
This style of art was Pop Art.
lowbrow, pop surrealism, gothic pop, pop surrealism, outsider art, alternative art
Pop Art
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pop art started because people where bored and had nothing to do back in the old days, so they decided to start a group and called it pop art and has been around since the 1800's