Pop Art Artists 1960s. The first (and most influential) books about pop art were published in america in the 1960s, and though they featured a few british artists, artists from beyond the anglosphere were ignored. Literary artists challenged traditional ideas about fiction and poetry.
For example, pop art challenged traditional fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc. Together forming the independent group, these artists went against the high brow culture of art to make it more accessible to the masses. These artists have created abstract pop art that has made marks in the art culture.
The concept of pop art refers as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that it led to.
See more ideas about pop art, art, female artists. Her brightly painted works featured sensuous portrayals of women—often clad in swimsuits on the beach—and were a takeoff from images seen in popular men’s magazines of the time. Provocative and entertaining, pop life examines how artists since the 1980s have cultivated their public persona as a product, and conjured a dazzling mix. The 1960s was an exciting time in british art.