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  Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950 s in Britain and in the late 1950 s in the United States. The term pop art has been applied to many visual artworks created during the mid-1950s through the 1970s, in which the imagery has been drawn from popular culture such as advertising, comic books, movies, music and cartoons. Pop art is a form of abstract art that utilizes aspects of mass culture and the mass production of art. Pop art is often used for irony and the critique of the mainstream culture.  The movement is considered to be a reaction to abstract expressionism and a contrast to abstract expressionism's emphasis on the hermeneutic quality of art. Art critic Robert Hughes stated: "pop art is the last spontaneous and collective art movement to erupt from the middle class". Pop art often takes as its subject matter banal or commonplace objects—the "low" rather than the "high" or "fine". Pop art employs aspects of mass cul