The first art-gallery exhibition of pop art on the West Coast opened on July 9, 1962 in the Ferus Gallery of Los Angeles. It featured a one-man show by Andy Warhol, who was a leading figure in the pop art movement. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s.  |
| Andy Warhol |
Pop art is a movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. It employs aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture, most often through the use of irony. It is generally understood to be a reaction to the ideas of abstract expressionism – the popular as opposed to elitist culture in art. It arguably reached its height of popularity in the mid 1960s.
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