Pop Art
Pop Art is a peculiar art movement that elevates everyday advertisements and consumer goods to the status of sacred masterpieces. With bold colors and catchy slogans prioritized over deep critical thought, value judgements are often entrusted entirely to packaging design. Blurring the line between the marketplace and the museum, it works diligently to loosen consumers wallet strings. Grandiose posters and comic imagery, dressed as high art, circulate through galleries while audiences photograph them on smartphones and head to the gift shop. Pop Art celebrates a festival of commerce for an audience that never sought pure aesthetic experience in the first place.