Drowning Girl (also known as Secret Hearts or I Don't Care! I'd Rather Sink) is a 1963 American painting in oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas by Roy Lichtenstein.

Pop Art was born in Britain in the mid-1950s. It was the brain-child of several young subversive artists—as most modern art tends to be. The first application of the term Pop Art occurred during discussions among artists who called themselves the Independent Group (IG), which was part of the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, begun around 1952–53.

Pop Art appreciates popular culture, or what we also call “material culture.” It does not critique the consequences of materialism and consumerism; it simply recognizes its pervasive presence as a natural fact.

Acquiring consumer goods, responding to clever advertisements and building more effective forms of mass communication (back then: movies, television, newspapers, and magazines) galvanized energy among young people born during the post-World War II generation. Rebelling against the esoteric vocabulary of abstract art, they wanted to express their optimism in a youthful visual language, responding to so much hardship and privation. Pop Art celebrated the United Generation of Shopping.

Key Characteristics of Pop Art

There are several readily recognizable characteristics that art critics use to define pop art:

• Recognizable imagery, drawn from popular media and products.

• Usually very bright colors.

• Flat imagery influenced by comic books and newspaper photographs.

• Images of celebrities or fictional characters in comic books, advertisements, and fan magazines.

• In sculpture, an innovative use of media.

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